f h>t ciif out by a tailor. Put - the family, my mother© and two ing this, her first year in t.Jie " eldest sisters busily plying the small house -<> kindly furnished , needle, and the little ones chat Sketches and Reminiscences Sketches and Reminiscences her by Mr. lio-.borough, she al- : ting, studying books and keep- lowed her two elde-t children to inji but partly warm. How my be taken by a relative to York- ; mother©- heart kept warm and by Joshua Hilary Hudson by Joshua Hilary Hudson ville and -ent to school. My i her spirits nerved, and how we eldest brother. .I»hn. my third : manayed to live through such sister. Mm lit, af.d I were us f tiial-, poverty, ami want, I can-, :\M Khl©CA©l H©N aid I Id I was Lorn in Ihe present luwri could not continue tn be pel - tthcr ;* an (then village» of Chester, in the formed by a wumari, and >he was ( poor scholars, seni to -chool to not now conceive. Hut God M"t }\r>i iici. i i ela;-.f d b r r t*f- i>i . the vitiate teiu-l©ii©j©, Mi-.> Ann , tempers the wind to the shorn I Msila I mm; © " Slate of South Carolina, on the forced to >eck shelter else- j foil> tn keep her children a! and ol>| a m». \W2. when-, and how would this be | Foster, win* lauu©ht -.clioni near- lamb. He is husband to the »e|nHi|, :©.-peeially 1 fie younir©1 © "by my mother©s iu u house sub widow and father t© ; he father M r. .lami s I©ai ish, the My fjith-T. 1 )abiiey Hudson, found ^ She was without money ! nnc-i, >i-ler Miiria, I, brot hei prnmi" •• sequently and for many years less, and He prese. .- = -,1 us and ruakei . I yave MUM- o was born in Amhi©isl County, or means, and with seven help Itn.-h and -i;*ter Cnrnelni, Neec.-. al thi- I rarie. anrl al©lci owned and occupier! a* a dwell brought us throng.. slly foiied hei hi keep Ihe two \©a., December 17. 1S01, and less chiiditMi clmu©intf tf> ber vil Ii him -evci ;il n\»t\\ .s. he cjH- faint- to Smith Carolina when a skuts. Fortunately my father ing by Hi. A. P. Wylie. It .still For several summer s and win © Hr.ii ;j.nl-, Maiy ;ind Sarah, nl stands in the town, but has been f| e I o j i o 11 111 \ ; 11 n: i i ( i youth. H>© first settled in York- had many friend*, though poor, tcrs the family continued tbu.- ; lie in©i©dlr, aid lo bind I In- eld to In m a- a n ,\ ppi cm remodeled. My mother appreci- 1 to live and, by the blessing of i "©I mil, John. ;i> a ppi ©-ill ice In vine, where hi- leMrned Ihe tail and my mother was a devout thai hi- woiiH tea me or©s trade with his un-ele. Wil membei .-t ihe Baptist Crunch a a Led the value to her chilli-en of tiud. to enjoy health. (be tailor©- trade. education, and availed herself of ] trade upon no other lerm.-. i!er liam Dedman. who was also from .-incere Cluistian, and a wumun .My two eldest sisters became Tlir © V\ r| e all - |e;ol> , V. ^\ lin^ every opportunity lit send her experience wil h I lie ap|>reiii i,-f.©- Virginia, and afterwards re of character and intelligence. in girlhood tailoresses with my \voi 1 l\4©i s, find to the-.!- Ihe ,\Htili,U© children to school, hut they were j- hip " f h©-j f i i>t si m no| in-ill..© moved to N©urth Carolina, my Such a woman will never lie mother. My eldest brother, cr diilfliTii owe a debt of lasting fi om nece-sity entered as poor cut rely ideasant, she had resoK - i©iitht-r remaimrijr in South Car<»- without sympathizing friend-. John, was bound by articles as gral it mle. scholar- under© the laws of the- r-rl ,iot to bind out aliollier child, iii:;». On thi© ©.©th day of July, ! *,.) © nn:ite!y for her ami her an appi entice to Daniel Cat roll. State providing for the educa The fun r ;. mi nger rtnldri©ti ami -o informed Mr. Parish, lie I *©:.©2. Dabney Hii-ison married liulc ones, the} lived in a com K.X.I., to learn the tailor©s trade, tion of such. Blessed be her WCI©e r.epl in srboiil a.- Jtnei in-i-ied upon his let ms, but she Narcissa Cook, tin- eldest dautrh- munity noted then and now for am! the younger children, Maria, © t©ii©d;ii -, i. e.. nn I lie tfreat l> in fiimU declined, and ihus cndei. icr of Benjamin Cook nnd Saran, memory for her wise forecast in charity lo the poor, the needy this respect. aiid for her toils Joshua, Rush and Cornelia, were iifli©ijiiat e fi©©©e M©hrml fnii©l, ar >J my career a.- a r-abiiietmakei. I his wife, both natives of York. and worthy. She was ui^ed to steadily kept at school, first, as my motbei and si-tei nuule Up was ilms once more an idle i>..\. .Mother \\ H.-> born October ^K, and sacr if ices to confer this scatter hei children uironti rela blessing upon her children. 1 remarked, t<> Miss Ann foster, tin 1 deficiency by sewing for liie hni very impat ieni to in-t io 1*00. After his marriage, Dab tives, or to bind them out to and after her marriage Lo Mi.© t ear-he i s. t©ndr-r the law she work. My b rot tier John hau by ney Hudson ic-moved to I.aiicas- various trades and callings, or to Her devot ion to hei t hildirn, Kit veil (jilmore, ue weni lo her eonld hav© avoided ©hi- tax upon thi« time opened a tailor shop in ter a in! th©-H1 opened a tailor send them to the poor house. her great industry and mai ked successor, Mr. Wylie Jone.-, who hr-r labor and si renjii h; hut r>| cMpnrtnei -hip - w.i Ii Mr. Karl©/y. . -hop. Here he am! wife lived Such -un©jiestions she declined piety made for hei friends, and taught in a small building which law she ami hei childi ©-n knev\ and it.t" thi- 1 uent tri ;\ ork, several years, and thm removed and resolved to keep the little they united in a move to secure afterwards became a part of the notiiing. and besides -he pie i ii©ni^©h with reluctance, hecau-e ]©. Chi-stei. In Lancaster, their ones with her M» long a.s a >h*-l- for her a home. Maj. John Ken carriage shop of Mr. C. Hoist. ferred to do the work and feel I tii.fi an aversion to the life uf I©irst child, Mary, was born. In ter and a morsel of biead could nedy donated to her during life Mi. Jones WHS succeeded by Mi. partially independent. a tail or. sit) inn ci us.- -ley;yei| on Chester, L>abney opened shop LM be had. Sealy as schoolmaster in the a hair) bench in a stooping ,i ,-, repartnership witli hi> brothel, a half acre of land, the name I \v a - MTV fund of my bnok.- John Kosboi©uijL,h. K*q.. called now owned by .Mr. t.©oogler, on same building, assisted by Mt. aii©l lenrlicd rapidly, a- much sn t ion, -te»idi!\ si it chiny w it.h a Uush, who hart come from Vir by everybody "I©nele Johnny," MeOaniel. So far the schooU needle, llul I o mi© it -ceiui d ginia and bcyan life as a house Depot stree^, and upon which he as any of my feUnu pnptl.-. A f was then clerk of the c"uris of has his store and dwelling. had been mixed, male and fe ter I lit- errctirm nf tin- male, aca- I his or nut hh©y. and at it I went. laipentcr in Yorkville. He niar- Genera! Sessions ami Common male attending together, until a i»rd was learniiiK well when M t. i icd a Mis-. Mary Hopkins, and I©pon this vacant lot a few demy on the hi!!, a nii-e -injile- I©leas for the Oistriet of Che.,- mule academy was built on the story brick building-, the teachers Samuel McAlilley, <©nniinu in this became also a farmer as well as ter. under the life tenure system, charitable citizens erected a log hill in We>t Chester, to the real oi©fi©-f in t he late fall of I h IN, .1 house carpenter. cabin and covered it with thtee- to whom I went \UM e: .Mr. Shei- .-o that he held the office until of the residence of Mr, Th©iinaj rill, M i . Slielton, Mrs, [>uvii-.«, saw me on the bench, lie had at © I>ui injr his life in * ©hesLcr, his dt nth, many years after this foot oak hoards, but failed to McLuie as it then was, ami * IMIKV t han on-- school e x tun i na 1©abisey had seven child] en bnrn build a chimney. , ,"\I). Sealy again, and Mr. IJan- time. He hail ot. hi- nremisen a female >chool was opened on sirncr. a (iennaii. each teaching tion te.-tc©il my ki>ou!i©di;e of in him, 1 it w it; Sarah. John, Into thi>, in the spring of small two-room house standing York street in the home, aft ei - one or more years, nccoiiling to mat©icjiiai ics, and of Latin and Kiiza. Mtii la. Joshua, Rush and IMolt, my mother was compelled on or near the present court wards owned by Rich*;id Ken acceptability or choice. 1©nder (Ireek- So scriny die1 on the Cornelia. (Jf the>e, Klixa died t«* niiive. and for a place for house lot on the east side of ir. nedy, Ksq.. and now owned by the lat ter teacher I be^an and tailor©s bench. IH-. in bis u.-ua! HI early childhood, but Mary and cnokirig, her boys, then mere He generously f^ave my mother Mr. Harvey Smith.. I believe. My made iH©o^rev- m Ihe >ttid>© ©.f aitrupt styli-, asked me why 1 ;iie others lived t« reai-h years children, erected in the back this small house free of tent for din! of hard woj k and M-M.-M.© I.ahn :nnl (if t ek. algebra and w.i- not at school. I inform-.,j "f maturity and reared families, yard a small bush arbor, an©I the year 1*:!7. and lonyt r it© economy, my mother was able to geoinetix. lie «©H- a fine -cliolar him that my mother uas no Ini.y- 1 fie menibei - uf which arc now necessary. leathering a few rocks and stone-, get a chimney to her log cabin, er ai>le lr» semi me to -.chool, anrl .© iy much scattered, some living and luosl Lliorouj-h in^li-ucl.nl, Into it she gladly muvvd \sltii luckily abundant, const rurl er| a and to get the cracks closed in that 1 wa* compelled hi work for 11, Georgia, Missouri, Arkansas, Inn \ L i y cro^-. and ii ritalilf, a heart of gratitude t*> Mr. K">- fireplace, perhaps two feet the usual way by daubing with a living1 . He lold me that lie r!e- Texas and South Carolina. which rr©tntereil him iin|Hi|>ulai high. i clay, ami w u all fell coinforlabi" -lied IN send Ills tv\r» boy. to During the last few yeais uf boi ou^h, but how NOW to with pupils and pat enU. I1 or Tin- toy* of the house \\ ei e j and rich. After the lapse of a school Imt t he distance wa- a ©iis life, iJabney Hud-on was the clotht an small of stature, but school ai.d take yjnd rate of handsome and manly. He was hopeless task. But she went to During the fit-t summer our improvement, he also had a teacher in Chestei dreu to H work like a I)rave woman and them he would boned me ai.il of a kind, genial and social dis suffering was not, gieat, but up board >hed built, to the rear i clo.-e I had re-ached my sixtet-inii noble mother. As the wife of a on the coming of winter it began aide uf the house. It took many ye;,i, nnd my mother and -i-- ^CMI in-- to .-cho©il for one year position and, unfortunately, a* at his expense. is too often the case with men tailor, sin- bad learned to pad it and became ac©.iti1 as the severity years to effect all this, years «f ter* having to work so hard to nf such temperament, became coat collar and to make a pair of of the winter came upon us. poverty, privation and suffei- clothe nu- and keep me in bool>. I thanked him t-ml ulailiy ac addicted (n drink, which shoiteii- coarse pants. To the calling of How to live in such u house with- © ing; but my mother©s heart and ; I fell that the time hud arrived cepted hi< pro position "ii cod her husband she resolved to bo er his liiV and kept him poor. out chimney and so open was a resolutions never failed her, al for nn» to try Lo support m\.-el©, ©iitir>n liiiit my mrithei v\ould ap take her-elf, and beyan by pad though her health became seri He dii-d j-©ivatJy lamented by his severe pi oblem. The resources, © I©p to this lime, .Chester nail piove it. This she gladly did. ding coat collars at 2") cents under the heavy family, relatives an rarely I hat the mother with July I 1 , 1962 ? with a vifw to become a printei. numljet was ureul. Me was sji bed quilts of the .-scanty housv- htr seven orphans is left in more The tailor- of the viUaye © 1 labored very hard in helping tiny near the f ii e, i cud ing© a , hold, thu* forming a hollow destitute circumstances. She were kind enough to send her all him to clean up and place the newspaper, whilst tbo ha in Is square the oven in the center. (VHS pet-milted by the kind-ln-ai t- their spare work of this kind, for : machinery and type of his of were busy aiound him with liv In this oven WHM built a fire of ed S.heiiff Cabeen to reside in they were friend- of my fathei fice in pr» it ion. For a short \\ in k of kdlinji and ih e-sin^ oak chips, and the smoke allow and keep tlu1 jail until the end and deeply sympathized with my Time I was a printer "devil" but ed to escape as best it could hogs. I approached _tyiiuHy£ but J of that J©ear. and al! the duties widowed mother. Fioni the pad ; I snon discovered that my em- of n jailor she discharged faith ding of collars she advanced to through the board roof, there , being no loft or ceiling overhead, i i ployer WHS intel}(ecUially a very fully ami well. the making of pantaloons, coats : Within this hollow square aat f weak man. and one from whom Hut the duties nf the office and vests, lh«© garmenis being { I would probably It-am little, S. C.-Biography - Hudson Family he di*tUl ht h;id hjs }jj'oiuisti to IPIM! tiiij mo |i|llL©, al Hllllt*.- Hot. I, I hiel M,e was much cheaper than to boaid vei.erable man lowered hi> heavy ix."i2, with f'a' first honor in a walked aioimd the fin and ney. Never in my life was I KHV. .lohn Itullfiliis, then iecp|,|. at the commons, called Steward's brows and gave me a nieiciny; class of nearly fifty laborious- read (Hi. At las: 1 spoke to liiiu. more surprised ami deliirhled. !\ "f f he.tei'. He -and hi:- noM- Hall. Knowing now the inacK-- look from beneath witn his tit e|> students, n)o-=T of whom wei P On in form in,-* my imith"j- »n>{ \\ifi 1 luid b* en -pccial friend- of cjuacy (»f my own means. I, ai his blue eyes. Abruptly he sab': older than I. and possessed <>f very bru-ijue. totie he de- .sister-, tliey \v ppi foi joy, and my in"ther and family, lie wa- vjyti'f'stion, applied to the pro-i- ''Well, *qr, 1 -uppose you k' ow superior parly advantages. In Lo know my business. 1 I when nil .Monday morning I a ina/.ed \\ In n, in it ii-<\\ IM to In dent fur the like privilege. Thio why you are sent for?" I an the rlas.v were ^iicll talented, him of his pioposjiion, | iiojniry. } told him I h.H 1 \\ -i great man, the lion. William t". swered in the negative. He then young men as David H. Porter, and informed him that I hud ;| ttttit rrieml Tom of my strangely t he( c t n en I cr m| le^e, l]e in Preston, as well as his worthy said: ''Have you a elear J. LuriiH (Jaston, S. W. Melton, ' ( "iip to take charge pf his boy- ^•ood lin-k. IIP f.iiily shouted witli <|ii 1 1 t-d ;t bout my pee iitHii) y wife, was kind-hearted and sym s( ience as to tut- disgraceful L.'Koy F. Vo'.imans, \Vaddy T. .•'fid iin to sciifol. Ik- replied Hie;i M , I Hi f"i lnet| | ( |lll '»[' MlV pathized with needy students findings of la-t nijj'ht?" l- Mean-*. J. Brown (laston. Pelt r IP had cniifltided to dpfei Jl''/ippfi»j t h UP redoubled 0111 L*I e;il riiiil lit |;i| » i i jnilie oien I - . striving for an education. I though if really alarmed. I n- yeai spuding his boy- to our '-ffnrt- to tie well piepareii. lie f'i i-jliieticd itif by infoi triini: found him and wife alone in his swert'd with emphasi-; "I I.. Griffin and others of like school. .\jy In/ait sank as de and in due si-a^nu were informed me thai sn .-mail a -urn \\a-i to library after tea. and laid my talent too numerous to mention. ceased fnilbi-i- to iiotic* me and by our instructor that we were tally in;ideo;uale. II© then kind situation and cireumstances be He then ie!ax«'d li< sten! To win the first place in ,*uch i resumed his reading, llowvri, ready. lie luid been promptly ly id"fercd In i|ef ra> m> iif<©f>-.. fore them. With wrreat regret V)iuu. ami in the mo-l plea.- r'ot ebi>* wa* an h«m»r to b>- proiui ;i~ I (uriiPd -adly to \\alk nwa> , informed of nu strange fortune -;tl \ colli-ee e,\pen-.c- f I oni be he was constrained by the late manlier f m-fivabk- i-Ptnitul-.d of. IN .-.-(id t" me- "(Jo hoini' and tin and -hai pd our delight. uiitn ntu tn end, and a -I. n>t < < i order? of the trustees to refuse nu* of the application I ha.d at r Li* -cbool foi- a \ par, and I will II** i«pfi> \\*i!* my Aly deal iihfther and ,-iMers paymeiil , pro\ idcd I slmuld \\ in the application, but cheered me the beginning made for pernis- tuiii hoi»M ro r*H'eiv- the pay the bill." I ihHiiked him u-ui Kid hut d but joyfully to yet I he firt h"iinr, hut he made n a by many kind expressions and .-ion to biianl my-elf in my rrmVn, and, it-turning hoin^, told my nf my dt-fir mother! But I couM me a tnmk and MUMP clothes fit cond it mn precedent I (ml I good advice. as Harrison was doinif. tin I went away sorrowing, but often he and Mr-. Preston had gladly consented fur me to en buttle of life was before me. puirha-©©d ii ^Indent u IK la tinted in my resolution to regretted the inn-t-ssity of i e- if«i|-tir"d to be stubbornly ter the academy .iyaii. The ris, chief clerk of Thomas Mc- of ihr college, many \eai- In- study. So successful was I in fusing me. fie then fold me r*f .-rhool \va- KI CMHI-i'f .,[' Mi. Kffnre, ho'.vpver,' I speak of my Luie, Sr., I -.till have in M good f'-re, ( fir^ter ^\a- Cla ftH -nnb J'', my labors that at the ,-nd of the thi'ir custom of keeping two stu (iiles J, Paliei-son. a n < pnt • ubse-ipieiii career in life I nm»t state of preservation after the i. c . all collei:'' boys from Ches- first session. I ranked first in dents in their house, and having let-uv to my pecuniary resources giadiu.tp of the .South Laioliiia lapse nf forty-five yp;trs. ler 1 M-l I ir! jnme,| I hal i^drifty. my class. And now came the lost Bauskett. they desired in« lo iti college, and -upply importanr At that time the meichant- t'llt fo| -'line ye;il - pIPV HHK t" unexpected, as illustrating the conic and tiikc his place. >.!-•>. I found that my old i-l; of Chester and of nil othci towns I S Jj) r 'be-iei h;ul bri nm* 1 old saying that "It is a bad wind l*rp>ton joined her husband *v.>:fi rboma-i M rl.Li re. Ji., \\ pie I'i'iplu •j.duin, iind ^11 m> fellow cheerfully in this generou-. Ji*+*ri\ of the State north of Columbia that blows nobody tfood." Be During my first vacation. I sludeiits from Chewier rfhd V<»rk whii.h I with thankfulness inj -pin i bfir CM! tun Jn wauons to fore the close of the first session, got a -ingint' rtass of 1'iftefcri or at the end of that year. f wa- >\fre KOIHJ; in .i"ii. lie- Kuphca gratitude accepted. I©rovtd -n- < ©nlnrnhiii, mid going along With owinjf to .-ome misunderstanding twenty of the young' people of I'liiced m ;i class with him m ;iil diaii Sm'iety Thc> tnbl int* that tially I was thus given a i.iost them, sold the cotton and bet ween Professor l.iumby, in- ('hestei, and gave le-son^ in hi- studies, and rp-ohed to keep hrotiy-h! bM©-k merchandise in tin- I mii.-l do I he -:inie, in | vvniild delightful home, in whi'-h I OM- st mi-tor in chemistry, and the vocal music, and retiliju'il forty :i;'Hc«- with him ami pivpaH* my- be tailed ;i renegade ;ui-| lip d»- junior, then the largest cia;-..-1 m joyed advantages too treat to -, the merchants often pie- or fifty dollars ftom th> labor clf to enter colJe^e, bm \\.Lh- .pi -rd, I .--n ©old Ml . I ©"liylfi -, be t-stimat.'d. This »ave me re the wagons MI liijy^ie- -n college, numbering over seventy, This was in the -nunmet- of 1x50. (Mit the faintest hope of ( -VPI but lit© Irietl In open m.\ ryv- ©o the whole class rebelled ayatM-t lief from the expenses of ihe gigs. It -n happened tltai M:, the vacation of I H"i I I i.aving the oppoiiunity to do -o. my i eft I -.ittiHtjnM ;\rnl t*« icfijt" their professor. Of course they Comm*»ns ui Steward's Hall, am 1 . f. .Hies f!rHha 111, si merchant oT my prereptor, (iiU-s -(. We .studied very diligently and •id' h ' il]> id i;lin«'J)t -. I liMii;);t- were in the wrong, but all tf- tnu." my two hum'red dollars • HI • < ©hestei. wns yoinz do \\ n in a j Pattcrso'i. tn teaching his Jury* gave our excellent t car: her gieal bagyy at i hi- -a me time MIU* llain-'iri. a fnrmei s'-b'inlmat'' forts of the faculty and tr tied nit- to the beginning -jf the • "rhool iti the Chester Male APH- satisfaction. Often did Tom of mine ill Chester, bill Ult'll » next year, when another most, Thomas Alel.ure, Sr., was to c»t~ ; tjpmy. and realized fifty dollars and f talk of what a yivat place iv hi- son, Tom, io college Mr. -Inde 'it of ma tu re yi-nr> in eol- fortunate event in>ured my col- teen tn convince them fail'np, from this source.. Ourintr thf college must be, and often did firahiiM! kindly consented to lejje. exei ted H pou f rfiii 111- legiate education, without ^hi'-h. the entire da*!* was expelled. . ',';a-atinn (*f IX52 I was ealled ti» u >• express our mutuJil i egret.- cany my-elf and trunk wuh him. uvcr me. II v iiia so far as I i-ould then, 01 > an imw The niu-ht following this ttrdcv >[iiirtHnhury ny thi- Rev. John I could not go with him. Tlii- -aved nip the expense of a st-e, my career a> K .-l©-.dt- ;* that Mr. Ooiijylas was unicason- wit IIP -'i-d a riotous scene t:i I he McCuMough to Take churge (d' his i ide in the stage coach, a.j.I nu;de would have been cut short. The Robert Jordan, a Chester boy ahle in his conditions, and that I ca illpU.-. The eX|M p l|cd -itudeHts : private school of n\ eni y-fivt-. it doubly pleasant, as I and Manning scholarship became va d -chool fellow nf our-, Ua- eould yet thrwiyh college by the jror on a s|ic"e, and, assembling i boys. Here I worked iab*H joiiJ- .friend T"ni rode in one ©i©i©jri;y. I h'dp of thn Kuphradiati Soi-iety. ni-fir the tnonunipnt, satut at^d cant. • ly for thiep iiKmths, and leceiv- already (.here. I funny; 1 h^ Mim and t he 1 wo me J chains io rl.e Governor John L. Manning. " J was thus prevailed mi to re- over seventy copie> of DraptM-©^ I'd one hundred dollars and my liter vacation he came home, and Mthei. jpi-1 M r. Itouti'Ins' u'ent-f nus pro- Chemist ry \\ it ft cam phi ne, ami Clarendon, had established j board for my labor. It will thus talked much wit h us of coll eye I had « M b toe one bun b© d j)(y>jt!on, and to iinpi-ri) my I)ilintr them up; made n huge bon scholarship by depo-i-ing hi t ; appear that my vacations wi-re ;iiid collect 1 life. This increased dollar- in t.aiiK bills., thi-« (icing tha rices of an education, but -,t fire, a roii ml which t lu-y iinlulg- biuik< of the Stale MI' S .', «h j not periods of rt-st and ri"-rea- my desire to irn, hut there was Ii.i If of u hat I had uorrmveo* kind I'l -o vide MI e watched over ed in danct- and song. All l!".e ] l;i(fn. as they should have bi-cn, not a shodow nj hope for one .-<> ft'oii Ml. KejMiediy, Jjn »,': rj I nit- and decreed it otherwise. fojh©tre gathered to witness the the annual inler**!*! of wn,- .. and thai I did not break down in poor as 1. deeming 11 prmh'iit thai !ir iiad scene, in.til the Vfin-rabli- I©rpjt- mind and body under this inces Strange it \vas that 1 hud not 7 per cent., should: be (.Uivnivt The ~ei-ond -c-.-inn cam* 1 and hr! i PI i el -iin the ot hoi half unl :I sant strain is surprising, and j» the slightest mi^ji-ivinj^ as to my ton ar rived and dispersed the *^ v- •.va-* diii'Ainr to a i/l'^e, The I sbti'il'l n"ed M. I uo liondi* ©( boisfei ons asseinbly. ability ro pa^s a >ucc'essful nf a worthy jtritu ^1 >if.it rn, time was approaching \vhrn Tom doliai.-- \\ a - .ill I a-kcd !nm i o proves that I \vas= blessed with a examination, ah hough I was in Arnoriji thor-e expelled was with t -if <-iirdirion thnf, pi •>- Me !,ui e, trio i ions fellow ami loud Mi©-. I. I hi otiyb mnot arn©p, fact not >o thm oi.it!'h!y prepart-d Thomas Itauskett, a son of a.n ficiency in learning- beintr equal, boon companion, was to Ica-i- d- ciuiiii' t lit.- ;< v PI \ l-tt©V.e ;•. us to ht* beyond dtmjrpi. My eminent lawyer of Kd^efield. a an applicniit from Sumter (itf me IIP to j*'" '" college, and J, hi'Mi •, i n| niiii ; e\, a nd a ©Mp;y -,i f self-confidence was of" st-rvit'** warm personal friend of Mr, which < 'hirHinJon VVNS H parish * poor fellow, u ;i> tn 1 e Ilia ill ill ficieni to i arr-y me through, ll.irj July 18, 1962 Jo me, and I passed easily on all Preston. should have the pi * 1'ei i-ner. home, and do, I knew not what. I a-ked t©r»r more I am MiiC h© 1 branches, and entered the Sopho Mr. and Mrs. Preston wtre On a Sabbath day. while sil ivonld li;ivi> loaned it. UN:, childless, and iisually ti^fl «s fuj- tnere was i o "Thrjp i- a rlivinit y i nat more class with mauy others, ting in the Ifapti-st Church, my mukinu' a class of over sixty. inmare^ nf their home t ,vo col app'ieari! fi'oin S and on!v >hape-^ OIM ends, lege hoys, sons of special i'l.ciuK mind wandei >-d from the ser- Friend Torn \va< equally suc on* f>om my clus* The faculty. ; nion and brooded over my sad Ktiiijjh new (Item tiou ice wi,l," The two thus favored at that controlled by the standard of and I bt-lieve il \\-as I'l o\ identiul cessful, as were -f. Luriu* (ias- lot in not licinj: able tn jro to ton and J. Brown Ga^ton, yll of time were John Wharton. of proficiency a \\jit tied the { ollt©ire. The thought Hashed thai 1 then knew so little o'' i|.p Texas, and Thomas Buuskett. o 1' j ti> me, as I b;ul maintained the ex|>ensc-i nf a c'dh-u'iate edn-a Chester, and Samuel \V. Melton, over my mind that perha|is sonic of York. South Carolina, the first then in ;i hiirbest stand in tin1 rla,-*;* from fiiend mitrhi help me. In casu©ny; li'tn, ;i> flip MHjUp] \vi|J sbo.\. lii.s senior year, and tin; |;is' in I the Tbe journey was to m*' MM" • We all secured rooms abovp about, I fixed my mind on Ilk-h the old chapel, I and Melton in his junior, a;;d he being exjV'lled, ard Kennedy, KMJ., as a kind I lum pleasant, and full of wi.n Wharton was left alone as com Having thu-s I h»- annual sum (Jf|--, for f had nexer before b.'en one room, the two (iasto.ns in a- of three hundred ami fifty dot- man, and one able to help, if nother. ami Ihivid H. Porter, of pany for the president and wife. willing. ! instantly rr.-olved to beyond ibc border-, of Chf-r/'i' lan« to draw on thi^uiji-h tht* Alabama, with John N'ecly (then On the next day J wad sum jrn tn his humi© jmiri"diately after IMsirici, and ho! often o\ i i nieairient of the eollegp for my uj' Columbia, hut a unlive of moned to the president's house si»rvi«*e. IHV my desires hcfocn three "r f"ui miles from the \ ii support. J way enabled to pro CheMet), tin- third room all on and wt'.nt with trepidatui", fear him and pie/| and nwiiecj by Mr. Ctdii 111 hia Kxpo ,J1 ion seemed in his library, where sat the vener W'l|. In spite of earnest IHii:; pp|'iiii--ioM from the f©su-ulty to Ilai'nrv Smith. l.uckilv I found able president with his wife arid tltion by othi'i in my own private study Cieii. Stales Rights Gist, of Gen. and incorporated into the bri of the house of Mr. Pegram, the day and night. It is to me a HipJey's staff, the appointment gade of Gen. N. G. Evans. We station agent, without medical wonder I hat my health was not of drillmaster, with the monthly were in the Jackson campaign, attention for six weeks, by ^Sketches and Reminiscences" destroyed by iho strain, for in pay of thirty dollars, I being the including the nine days' seise which time, by the blessing of four months I had read and re only one not a graduate or stu of that city. After retreating Providence, I was sufficiently viewed the entire prescribed dent of the Citadel Academy to from there, the brigade was or recovered to be paroled and tw by Joshua Hilary Hudson course of study. and also the whom such an appointment was dered back to South Carolina, ain my journey homeward. serifs of "Cram MI ing," consist given. The pay of a private sol arriving in August, and parti To narrate the circumstances My SUBKKQUKNT CARKKR John, a youth, who carried me in ing of a manuscript hook of dier was eleven dollars a month, cipated in the defense of Char of my being wounded, how I a buggy to Bennettsvillu, which queslions and answers. In May, so that the office of drillmaster, leston until March, 1864. We was carried from the battlefield, Having graduated, I found 18">7, I started to Columbia to with the monthly pay of thirty were then sent to North Caro how I lay for six weeks dressing .; myself penniless, and under the we reached a little after mid day. There was an immense stand my examination. A great dollars, was a blessing to me, lina and joined Hoke's Division my wound only with a wet rag, necessity of seeking without de fieshet was in the Pee Dee at who had at home a wife and in the march to Xewhern, from my recovery, my parole by Gen lay some occupation winch crowd of people in the public squat e, and upon a gallows sat the time, and John B. Irby, Ksq., four small children to support, which place we were sent by eral Chamberlain, of Maine, my would hrit a me immediate re- sent one of his stout slaves in our eldest, a fine boy, having forced marches to protect Peters difficult journey home over rail inuiieriil inn. I could not be;;in a while man to be hanged for a canoe with myself and trunk. died in January, 1H57. burg, and on the 20th May roads torn up and rebuilt — first the study of law or medicine for murdering his slave. I wa.s lodged at, Mr. Phillip Miller's By dint of paddling and wading Having shown myself to be an fought Gen. B. K. Butler be to Burkesville, thence to Dan want of means, I therefore re and pulling, this negio conveyed tween the Appomattox and James ville, thence to Greensboro, solved to teach school. A c.asr-- hotel. I met my friend, \V. \V. efficient drillmanter. I next re Irby, who introduced me to me over four miles of water ceived the appointment of adju Rivers at Clay'rf Farm on Ware- where I lay for three days in hos mate and f,tst friend, W. W. through woods, fields and bottom Church. We continued pital, thence by interrupted rail Irby, of Maiiboro, hearing of some of the trustees and citizens, tant of the Ninth Battalion, com among them an acquaintance of swamps, until we reached the manded by Lieu t.-Col. A. D. to hold the Federal forces in road rides to Charlotte, N. C.; mv purpose, tiad knowing oiy (.'he raw bridge 1 . He then check on this line of defense un , cireiinistjtuce,-., one evening prior my boyhood. L)i . J. lieatty Jen- Smith, and stationed on Wacca- how I providentially met my shouldered my trunk and we ran til the 16th June, when, to meet colonel, A. D. Smith, with a In the delivery of the graduating nings. \\ horn 1 was rejoiced ti* maw Neck, near Murray's Inlet. over half a mile to the depot, Grant's flank movement, Gen. conveyance and was brought by . speeches, as we walked up to the meet again, Here we remained until April, and J got o;i the rear platform Bushrod Johnson's division, of him to Marlboro, and from his American Hotel, called my at- In a few day.- I took c- ha rye 1862, when we were transferred of the car as the train moved which our brigade formed part, father's home was brought by - it-nlmn to the academy in Ben- of the academy with a large to Charleston and went into off, the iiegi o throwing my was hastily thrown across the Mr. Robert Harrier to Bennetts- nettsville and an advertisement number of pupils, and began at camp at Magnolia. A general trunk on at the >ame time. Appomattox and in front of ville, and was thus presented to for a teacher. 1 at once resolv reorganization of the Conftsder- once to labor with great xeal as Providentially I reached Co Petersburg. We had severe my family and friends, who re ed to apply, and he cheerfully an instructor. Life in the school- are army was ordered in May, lumbia in time for the examina fighting with Grant's forces on ceived me as one risen from the offered to aid me in securing room and village 1 found pleas 1862, and enlistments for the tion, and was so fortunate a.- to the 17th and 18th June, and dead, for all reports concurred 1 he place. At once I fortified ant, and omitting details, I mere war required. At this reorgani be admitted to practice in the zation of the Ninth Battalion I from that day to the end we in stating that I was killed on myself wit h si rung testimonials ly remark that at the end of the courts of Jaw uf the State. were defending Petersburg and from the entire faculty, and foi- was elected major. From here the battlefield; I say, to give the year 1 found the trustees ;md •were under constant fire until details of all this would consume vvurded these with my applica patrons satisfied, and I was re- On my return home I began we were transferred to Seces- the study of the equity course, sionville, and on the 16th day of March 1, 1 «(»•">. We suffered se much space, and read like a tion. I was aiso introduced by elected for another year. Dui- verely at the battle of the I Ir. Thorn well, who was then ing t he vacation of Deceinhci , and was admitted to that branch June were in the heat of that romance. of practice in the following De desperate battle, and did our "(tater," many of our brigade Suffice it to say that I reach president of the college, to I K.">-'1, I viMted my mot tier and being killed and overwhelmed by ('harles A. Thorn well, Esq.. his friends of Chester, and with cember, thus having read and full share in achieving the vic ed home about the middle of the springing of the mine be May very much enfeebled, but lirother, who was a member of great pride and satisfaction u*- reviewed both courses success tory' This was our first experi i he Legislature from Marl born, paid Mr. Richard Kennedy the fully in one year, a task which ence in battle, and the officers practically out of danger from ,, prominent lawyer of the Hen- 1 would not advise 'anyone to and soldiers behaved in a praise neath us, and many perishin? in my severe wound. nettsville bar, and one of the two hundred dollars he had undertake. Necessity alone drove worthy manner. After this we the de^erate hand-to-hand My wife, believing me to be hoard of i rusi.ees of the Heii- loaned me, and to Mr. Graham J me thus to over-exert myself. remained at Secessionvillt*. on struggle tt> recover our lines. dead, had left our humble home, nettsvilJe Academy. Having sent paid the twenty-five dollars bor From January, IH1N, to January, James Island, watching the su On March .1. 1865, our division and taken shelter with her forward my application, us soon rowed of him. neither one being- IH5K, I had been compelled, perior force of the enemy, and was moved out of the trenches, widowed mother. All seemed as I delivered my commencement willing to accept interest, and without rest or recreation, to occasionally skirmishing, but en and sent iiifeo camp at Burgess ruin, desolation and despair. oration and received my diploma, bought of Mr. Jordan Bennelt a over-exert myself in mental countering no general engage Mill, near dbe Boydtown Plank Bennettsville had been the 1 hastened home, which we double-case silver watch for labor, and during the last four- ment. In September we were road. On thte 25th we were or camping ground of Sherman's could then reach by the Char forty-fix e dollars cash, which years of that period I had on dered back fcr> Petersburg, and army, and the county of Marl lotte and Columbia railroad. In watch, after the lapse of more my hands the care and anxiety ordered to Church Flats, where on the morning of the 26th boro had been devastated by that i he course of two week* 1 re than forty years, I am mill wear of supporting a wife and chil we formed a part of the bri .March fought the battle of Fort ruthless band of marauders. This ceived notice 'if my election as ing, a good timepiece yet, and dren. In 185K, I ran for the gade of Gen. Johnson Hagood. S tea dm an in conjunction with simple statement is sufficient to principal of the academy at Uen- the only our I have ever owned. Lc-gUlaturt1 , and had, perhaps, Our duty here was to guard the Gordon's Corps. give an idea of the desolation nettsville, the teem tit ben in On the -Ith day of .May, 1854, tile misfortune to be elected. coast again^r the invasions of the Returning to 3urgess Mill on left behind. We returned to early in January. To reach that I married Alary, the eldest However, in serving a term I Federals, who, however, gave us the nitfht of the 26th, we, on the our little two-room cottage with town, so distant from Chester, I daughter of my landlord, Mr. profited from my experience, very little trouble. During the 28th, had at that point a severe out food, raiment or bedding. had to borrow money. My old I'hillip MilN't, a beautiful girl gaining knowledge much need winter of 1H(!^, our battalion of engagement with Sheridan's My profession seemed to be of friend, .Mr. James Graham, of of sixteen years, 1 being twenty- ed, and which could not have .^even companies had consolidat flanking column, under General no value to me, as the laws were Chester, who first carried me to two yean* old. been acquired otherwise. I de ed with it the battalion of three Chamberlain, of Maine. On the silent and -the courts closed. Columbia to enter college, kind On the 1st day of January, A, clined to seek another term and companies under command of next day we moved up to Five I at once opened a private ly loaned me twenly-five dollar* I). IK55, we began housekeep devoted myself assiduously io Maj. S. D. M. Byrd, stationed at Forks, and thence on th« 31<*t to school for boys, and by labor uilh which to reach lienneUs- ng. Like an imprudent young my profession, being convinced MeClellandsville, on the Santee. the vicinity of Oinwiddie Court ing in this half the day, and giv ville.. I vvi-fit hy rail lo Colum man J purchased a more expen that .M'eking and holding an of- These reported to us at Church house, all the while checkir.fr ing advice in my office in the bia, spent a night there, after sive house than I was able to Jice merely- of Jv'iioj^ajid ti u»t^ Flats, and by virtue of this con Sheridan's efforts to reach the afternoon, began to get a little supper at the hotel strolled pay for. and furnished it too is injurious to a young lawyer solidation the regiment thus South Side Railroad, our only money and bread. The first down In the campus alone, a no! liberally. For four years I dependent entirely upon his formed was called the Twenty- source of supplies. On April 1. meat I got was by taking it most as I gazed aiound at the campus labored to pay for the premises, practice for a livelihood. sixth S. C. V., and I was pro 1865, we fell back to Five Forks, gladly as a fee lor writing con and buildings, tears involuntarily but failing to do «o, 1 got rid of In 1857 my income was one moted to the rank of lieutenant- where in the afternoon our force tracts between farmers and their ran do;vn my cheeks as the as it, and purchased and moved hundred dollars, half of this be colonel, and Lieut.-Ccl. A. D. of eight thousand worn-out, laborers, under the prescribed sociations of the place and the into a smaller house, a wiser but ing in corn. By securing the Smith was made colonel. half-clad troops under General [j regulation* of the Freedman's thoughts of the broken ties of poorer man, with a rapidly in- Hppointment of magistrate, I Under the army regulations, Pickett were attacked by the 1 Bureau. love and friendship came upon eiea^ing family. made with that and my practice if a smaller battalion is con- whole of Sheridan's well equip ! Such waa my employment dur- me. I alnity.-l wished I was a Having taught school four three hundred dollars in lhf>8, "olidated with a larger, so as TO ped army of twenty-five thous v ing the summer and fall of 1865, student onre more. On the, mor years, J was solicited to continue and in 185H about four hundred make a regiment, the major of and fresh troopK, outflanked, :, and in this way w« got food and row I traveled by rail to King- another year, mid the school and fifty dollars. In I HfiO my the larger battalion will out cut to pieces and routed. [j clothing. Under the provisional ville, and thence to r'Jurence, tendered me again, hut the labor income increased to six hun rank the major of the smaller, Here it was, April 1, 1865, ", government the courts were open- , then existing only in name, as was very irksome and! I was be dred dollars, and then came the regardless of dates of commis that I received my only seriou* jj ed in the fall and winter of that the only structure was a pine coming very tired to the arduous Confederate war, finding me sion, and will be entitled to the wound, being shot through the 9 year. hoard shed, and all else a pine duties of the pedagogue. So I largely In debt. I entered the lieutenant-colonelcy of the regi body just below the left lung at | On the l»t of January, 1866, forest, this being January 7, declined the offer, and re army RR & private soldier in the ment, and hence my promotion close quarters by a minie ball. I formed a copartnership with I X5:j. i there took stage and on solved to study law. I visited my company commanded by ("apt. J. over Major Hyrd, we having f was carried from the battle Samuel J. Townsend, Esq., and i he evening of the 8th reached mother in December, 1856, and A. W. Thomas, of the Twenty- seven companies* and he only field to Ford'n Station, on the the courts being now open, busi- ' Society Hill, having passed brought her to Hcnnettsville to first Regiment, S. C. V., com three. South Side Railroad, and there jiesa began to flow in steadily. >. thiough Darlington village. On live with me. On the 1st of manded by Col. Robert F. Gra XV e remained at Church Flats left as if to die. I fell, a wound the morning of the JHh January, January, IH57, I opened for the ham, and stationed at George in comparative idleness and ed prisoner, into the hands of 18&IJ, my landlady. Mm. Doug- first time in my life a law book town. After exercising much in comfort until April, 1868, when the enemy on April 2, and lay la«, put me in charge of her ."on, and began the study in earnest, drilling, I received from Adjt.- we were ordered to upon my mattress on the floor -Bio - Hudson .Family. ther being- unable to buy books the brigade was stopped -irul persistent foe. The thin line of and good fees to be paid. This and the poor, the black and the Confederates, thirty-five miles copartnership continued until his white, were weighed in the for me. feel grateful. sent down to Kinston, on the I will soon pass off the stage or more in length, presented to untimely death on the 20th day same scales, and. measured by To study ancient history, I Neuse River. to join General of life, to join in the other Hoke in his expedition against the world a spectacle of marvel- i of May, 1870, during which time the same rule. used the copies of Goldsmith's ous courage and fortitude in the I had paid off an ante-bellum In my domestic relations, 1 Greece and Rome, borrowed world my faithful wife, who died Newbern. Arriving at Newbtrn on the 2nd day of December, A. face of vastly superior numbers. debt of two thousand dollars, have earnestly endeavored to from the Sunday school library, early in May, preparations were IX 1902, after a companionship made for the assault on the But I have not time or space for and otherwise improved my cir discharge the duties of husband and these I studied at home with even an outline of the unbroken and father. Our afflictions have out a teacher to guide me. How ul nearly forty-nine y<-ats, and town, and operations wore be cumstances pecuniarily. It taxed our departed chiliiri'ii. I greatly battle of ten months, nor for a the energies of both of us to be«u great, in having lost ten of true it is that "Where thtre is gun, when we were peremptorily regret that I have not been more ordered to Petersburg, Va., tm-n description of its most bloody keep us with our increasing our fourteen children — six a will, there is a way." tragedy, the Battle of the Crater. sons and active and zealous in striving to seriously threatened by the army business, and after his death I four daughters — so JOSHUA HILARY HUDSON. do good to my fellowmnn, and in During this memorable siege had to call in to my help, as co that we have no surviving son, under Gen. B. F. Butler. A Bennettsville, S. C., Sept.. ft, laboring1 to uplift the young of part of General Hoke's division our brigade was commanded by partners, two young attorneys, but four living daughter^, tnrt-e 1897. Gen. Steven Elliott until the « H. H. Newton, Esq., and J. Knox married and one single. My my acquaintance, but the de arrived in time to assist in iv,> The foregoing sketch was mands of my profession have Battle of the Crater, in which he ' Livingston, Esq. After a year wife has borne her heavy afflic cuing from the Federals the line written early in January, A. D. been so heavy, and the battle of of railroad leading to Riehmor.d. was severely wounded, and or two Mr. Livings ton formed a tion with Christian patience and 1894, and in 18117 was printed thenceforth it was commanded copartnership with Messrs. fortitude, life so hard, that it has seemed Walker's Brigade, however, md and I have tried to fol in pamphlet form for gratuitous to me to leave no time to lo«ik by W. H. Wallace, colonel of the Townaend ajid Covington, and low her example. not reach Petersburg, for want distribution to my family, kin after the young men of the land of transportation, until the even Eighteenth S. C. V., who was Mr. Newton continued with me Qur worldly possessions are dred and a few friends. and lend them a helping hand, ing of the 17th May, and found commissioned brigadier after the several ye^rs longer. On the small, consisting of a comfor disabling of General Elliott was 14th February, 1878, I was *?- Since that time I have been at least by advice and encourage the city rejoicing over the vic table home and a small piece of ment. Looking- hack now, [ see tory of Beauregard over Butler definitely ascertained to be per lected to the office of judffe of land »eiir the town with some engaged in the practice of my l>r»fe*.sion, by which, through clearly how I might have done at Drury's Bluff on the day be manent. To the besieged the the Fourth Judicial Circuit, as insignificant improvement.-: oti it, toils, privations, hardships, dan successor to the Hon. C. P. the special kindness of a few much in thi= good work and fore, but freely criticising the but yielding almost no invme. sacred duty which was left un failure of General gers and severity of the winter Townsend, who had held the of friends, I have managed to .sup Whiting to Of surplus money we have none, done. move upon the left and rear of of lS64-'65 were trying in the- fice since 1873. and I am forced to resume my port myself and family, I have been occasionally called Kellowmen of knowledge ami the Federal army by way of extreme. A volume might be To th« duties of this office I practice of law, with what suc means, permit me to exhort you, Swift Creek, as he had been or •written descriptive of the siege devoted my time most laborious cess the future alone oa:i deter upon to hold, in different parts of Richmond and Petersburg, of the State, special terms of the one and all, to strive to aid and dered to do by General Bt-aure- ly, until after sixteen, years s«T- mine. to lead aright the young men ni gard, which movement, if and the behavior of the garrison vica I was Bucce«4«4 to the Hon. I wish to remark that my me Circuit Court. Tola labor to me throughout, which, stripped of hat be«n p!«4§«qt and agree tin? IrtnH, fur by *o doing you promptly executed, would have Richard Watts, of Laurens, ow- mory of my childhood and early will enjoy an approving con resulted disastrously to the Fed all embellishment, would justly to th« tM* ia politic* fc life is very distinct, and all the. able, owing1 t« tht uniform kind- and ««*ut«*p of the science and in after days these eral army. Remaining in Peters be classed with the marvelous 1 foregoing has been hastily writ- younir men will ble.-s your »><•- burg until the night of. the tilth and heroic. Which tne entirely from memory, and —Tke first week of March, Governor Tillman and his berw of the bar in the several moj y. May, we. were moved up to faction came into power. My from no record or memoranda. J. Clay's Farm, in front of Ber I was but a little over fo'jr countvie-* ID \vhirh I have b^en H, HUDSON, 1805, the division of Bush roc career as a circuit jitdg-e of August, ii>03i muda Hundreds, where on the years old when my father died, ••ailed. Joh.n«on was relieved of duty ir South Carolina hegan February 20th May we were engaged all the trenches around Petersburg 14, 1878, and ended February but I have a distinct recollection By the blessing of (Jod, n;j* day with the forces of General of him from the time I was two health has been good all my CHESTER! NEWS where it had served faithfullj 14, 1894. The manner in which Butler, and on that day General and continuously from June 1C. I discharged my duties in thb* years old, and can relate many life, and so continues in my old Beauregard completed the work occurrences from then until his age, now past three score and July 25, 1891, and the corps of Genera exalted and responsible office is of "bottling up" General But Early moved in to take its place known to all the people, especial death with which he was connect i en years. I was brought up in ler's army at Bermuda Hun ly to the bar of the State. It ed, and have a most vivid recol the faith of the Baptist <"hui'<-h dreds. In the afternoon of May We went into camp in thr lection of his last illness, his by a good mother, who for fifty PERSONAL EXPERIKNTK woods ai Burgess' Mill on th does not become m« to speak t>f Of J. H. Hudson, Lieutenant- 20th, the gallant General Walk it. I will »ay, however, that death and funeral. years was a devout worsh.ppev er, whilst aligning hte brigade in extreme right of the line am For the encouragement of in the Baptist Church in Cheater. '. oloml Twenty-Sixth Rfginitnt, comparatively remote from th during this long period I nev^r ;. C. V., Near the Close of the the woods, rode into a Federal missed a court, nor was I ever poor boys desirous of acquiring I should have joined the cnurrh *ar. ambush, and fell into their foe. The change was hailed wit) behind the hour appointed for its an education, I wi»h to say that ITI the days of my youth, hut hands severely wounded by their delight by the weary soldiers opening, and during the entire for a year or two before gomg to procrastinated, hesitate*) and de The Twenty-sixth Regiment. close fire. From May 20th un who little dreamed of the sever* time I was never prevented by college I had to study much at layed until A. I). 1890. Tne . . C. V., of which J had the til the 15th June the two armies work in store for us so near ai illness or other cause from hold night, but my mother could not Church has honored me more . onor of being Heutenant- confronted each other, but with hand; for we were not aware oi ing court for the full day's work furnish me with a light. She an I than I have deserved, for twice I jliinel, formed a part of the out a general engagement. On the formidable flank movemen but onc«, at Mount Pleasant, her daughters had to sew late at was chosen to preside over the ri^nde of Gen Johnson Hagood the night of the 15th Jane, the of the army of General Gran when I fell ill. I will further night by the light of a single Convention o? the Baptist 'hi!e stationed at Church Flats, division of Bushrod Johnson, of then about to begin with the state that I began my official tallow candle; but they could not Churches of the State, an offirw r;l'->w Charleston, during the which our brigade formed a part, forces under General Sheridao career with the firm conviction supply me with this luxury, so I which should be filled only by .inter of l862-'63. Early in was moved hastily to Petersburg in the van. General Lee, how that it is the duty of a judge to was forced to improvise a light men of unquestioned piety and May, 1863, we were assigned to to aid in checking the advance ever, was aware of it, and to cre decide canea and render judg for myself and it was done in purity of character. Believing ie brigade of Gen N, G. Evans of General Grant. ate a diversion, and if possible ment promptly. Justice delayed this wise: I saved all the baton this, I declined to be again ii'i ovdeied lo Jackson, II as. On the 16th, 17th and 18th to break through the Federal is justice denied. Hence I never gravy each day to be had from chosen. f er the siege and evacuation the Confederates fought des lines and stroke Grant's base of carried a cane home with me to the scrapingrt of the dinner Financially my life has been a •T- rkson, we were ordered perately against superior num supplies at City Point, he plan labor on during vacation, but in plates, and this I put into an old failure, a* it has been in many *o Charleston, where we bers, and as iir by a miracle, ned an assault on their entrench variably decided them in term tin plate. I placed in this a respects, owing- to a thriftless rliVrtd late in July, and were held at bay the army of Grant ments at Hair's Hill before dawn time and ia open court. A fully twisted cotton rag or string, disposition and a want of firm ;ationed at Mount Pleasant, in until General Lee arrived with on the morning of the 26th argued case I never pocketed, leaving1 o,ne end to project over ness, promptness and decision. I ill view of the aiege of Bat- a part of his veterans. The lines Marchj. Accordingly*, on tn« but decided all such during term the edge of the plate. When lack the capacity to perceive, ap tjry Wagener and all the opera Beauregard had established in night of the 25th, our division time. The observance of this night came I took this plate and preciate, seize and rise to the tions in and around the harbor the face of enormous odds were broke camp at Burgess Mill and rule forced me to labor hard and my books into the rude log kit level of the occasion. No one of Charleston. In November we held and maintained from June marched back to Petersburg fete at night writing decrees, chen. Placing: it on the edge of can succeed in life who does not were stationed in the city of 18, 1864, to April 2, 1865, a where at dawn on the morning «nd endangered my health, but I the pine board dining table, I readily perceive, and have the Charleston and formed a part of period of nearly ten months. of the 26th, in conjunction with adhered to it. Of comae many lighted the end of this crude nerve to seize, the occasion. its garrison until March, 18«>4, The history of the siege and de the corps of General Gordon, we of ray decrees were perfunctory, wick, and drawing* up my chair when we were ordered to Vir fense of Richmond and Peters assaulted and easily captured studied by this dim light until a In June, A. D, 1903, the trus ginia. Owing to an injury re Fort Steadman on Hair's Hill and did myself injustice. But I tees and faculty of my alma burg during these ten months, ^ was willing to sacrifice myself late hour at night. If it was cold ceived by General Evans in & if truthfully written, would read and the lines to the right and weather I drew around me a mater, the South Carolina Col fall from his horse on the stone left to a considerable distance, to promote the ends of justice, lege, conferred upon me the de like a romance, perhaps unsur and to dispatch business. quilt to keep me partially warm, pavement in the streets of Char passed in the annals of modern taking a goodly number of pris for entire physical comfort was gree of LL. D., an honor beyond leston, he could not accompany oners who were surprised. My aim was ever to know no my df'ttfrf*, Mn for ^hirh I warfare. Not a day, or night, master but the law, an.i to be impossible, and not expected. his brigade, and General Walk not even an hour of day or night, But to advance further with scrupulously loyal to thin my Under these difficulties I pre er, known as "Live Oak" Walk passed except under fire of the our small force was discovered only master. pared myself for college, using er, was assigned to its command artillery or small arms or both to be Impossible, and after hold- The high and the low, the rich mostly borrowed book?, my mo- and went with u^. At \\\;H<>n artillery and small arms of uur in;.,' the cMpUiM'd irrnund until a- bout 1 1 o'clock a. m. \ve were was thrown on the left flank of 1 front and rear at twenty paces Company F, Twenty-sixth S. C. , execrable road. Twice the ain- spite of the fright this gave withdrawn in time to escape Pickett's meager force, and the ', distant. I was shot down, as \., from Horry, saw and picked i bulam-e stuck fast in the mire I slept some that night and a- slaughter or capture by the onset had to be met by the ', were many others, and the route. mt£ up, telline: me to run. I and were on the eve of being gain found myself alive next overwhelming force massing a- thin brigades of Ransom and [, of Pickett's entire command he- cried out, "I cannot walk, much | abandoned, and I believe would morning, but Grant's main army gainst us. Wallace which were attacked In came general, a few escaping, less run; carry me away; I do have been but for the wounded was passing by in pursuit of front and flank simultaneously but most being captured, and not wish to die and be buried officer in each. By the aid of Lee's remnant of a once proud That night Johnson's division ;' the way to the South Side Rail here." Replying that the enemy victorious band. The tramp of returned to camp at Burgees in an open stand-up fight, for thf artillery horses as they pass we had scarcely the semblance road was open to Sheridan. i is upon us, they ran on, leaving ed us the vehicles were extricat infantry and cavalry and rumb Mill. On the 28th March, Sheri ling of artillery was incessant dan's advance force.*, aiming to of protection in front and none •' I have thus attempted to give me under fire. Rendered des ed from the mire, and we reat-h- whatever on the flank. The ] a brief narrative of the battle of ^ erl Ford's Station at midnight., and seemed never-ending. I reach and destroy the South Side perate, I regained my feet and could hear all but see nothing as Railroad, struck us at the saw fighting was fierce and bloody ', the afternoon of April I, 1865, , trotted on through the pines. I having made seven mik's in six !i until we were completely over J at the Five Forks proper, where j hours. The driver of the am I lay on the floor, feeling deep dust pile on the Boydton plank had gone about one hundred ly anxious for the coming fate ol' road, near our camp. A stvib- lapped by superior numbers and '. less than 8,000 foot-sore, ragged j yards when Gen. Matt Ransom bulance in which I rode was a stood as it were between the '• and half-starved Confederates soldier from Louisiana afld a our brave boys. About noon born fight ensued between our (mounted on a bay horse, one General Grant and staff and three brigades, Grade's Ala blades of scissors, the enemy be ij for four hours in th<- open held having been shot under him at m»ble fellow. At Ford's Station ing within twenty steps of our \ at bay 25,000 well-clad, well- I was lifted from the ambulance several of his corps commanders bama, Wise's Virginia and Wal the Five Forks), followed by an came into the room where I lay, lace's South Carolina on the front and rear. Junt before this orderly, came dashing by. I by Dr. Girardeiiu, rhapiain, and ~fed Federal troops, and gave others, and laid on a mattress in to rest and lunch. Of these one hand and two divisions of extremity arrived a tragic inci shouted to him my condition and ;i way and fled only after more the house of Mr. Pegram, tlie de Federals on the other. We made dent occurred. For several days begged him to pave me from cap j than half the force had been pot agent, while Colonel Pegrani lieneiiil (irnnt v\'a« mo*t plainly the attack by single brigades in it was known that spies and ture. He cried out to his order ,i killed, wounded and captured. was laid upon the bed in the dressed, and bore a weather- » thy woods on their superior scouts of the enemy had been a- ly to dismount and give me his i The route of the survivors was same ruom. Surgeon Dick, nf beaten appearance and care- force, but with only partial suc mong us afoot and mounted, but horse. On his dismounting I j complete, and night and the Sumter, gave me a dose of mor woin look. The others were cess, the opposing forces camp none had been caught. In the laid hold the mane of the tall woods and impassible roads a- phine and left with me snm<_- more p-iily dressed, and more ing within easy i-ange of small rear of the Twenty-sixth S. C. V. est of black horses, and bare ' lone enabled any to escape. more in a paper, with instruc yariuloiis. General Grant was arms. back, no saddle nor blanket, I was a thicket of old-field pines tions riot to take any of it un ctilrti, quiet and reticent. After On the following morning by behind which were our ambu The able and gallant Federal begged him to help me on. With takin;* a soar he inquired my [ corps commander, Warren, in- an oaih, he cried to me to mount less my pain demanded it. The break of day we moved along lances and ordnance wagons. effect of the medicine soon put nar.ie, rank and nature and cir the White Oak road parallel to Through this thicket a soldier [ t-urred the disspleasure of Gen- or turn the horse loose for him. cumstances of my wound, and 1 era] Sheridan for not destroying He did not know me and was ex me to sleep, and my surprise wad the march of the Federals and with a Federal overcoat dash great next morning when I a- then asked me if he- could do skirmishing with them all day. ed up to us on horseback. Some 1 or capturing PickeH's entire cusably alarmed. Making a des anything for me. I asked for a force, and he was relieved of his perate effort I cHmbed astride woke to find myself alive. I at On the night of the 28th, and one cried out, "Shoot the Fed once inquired for Colonel Peg- surgeon to examine my wound. during the day of the 21tth the eral spy." Instantly a half « command, which was given to and the black went in pursuit of Ht> promptly had one called, who I General Gibbon. Could the ver- the bay, I giving him the rein ram and was told that he was rain was very heavy and we suf dozen bullets pierced his body, dead and buried in the yard. came? in and made the examina fered much discomfort. On the and he fell from his horse dead. t diet of the Confederates have and holding to the mane. tion, inquiring particularly as to been rendered Warren would This was unpleasant news to me, night of the 30th we went into It was then discovered that he At the distance of three hun as our wounds were alike, save the time, place iind circumstan camp at Five Forks, the enemy have been vindicated, for in our ces of the wounding. I inform was General Hansom's young ad judgment his corps was never dred yards, having passed be that my lungs escaped, but I ful having moved off in the direc jutant. Ghee or McGhee, who yond the lint* of fire, I came to ly believed my intestines were ed him. and anxiously awaited tion of Dinwiddie Courthouse, a- better handled, and never fought his judgment. His appearance had been but recently married. better; Warren by a court of in two ambulances standing on the cut. In an hour a private caval long which march they were His fate was never definitely mad that leads towards Ford's ryman from North Carolina was and manner pleased me. and a quiry was after the war fully feeling of oreal relief came to much harassed by our calvary on known to hi& people or his gen Station on the South Side Rail brought in and laid on the bed the 30th and I! 1st March. On vindicated. This disastious bat me when he informed me that I eral until I narrated it to Gen tle led to the evacuation of Rich road. Dropping from the horse, on which Pegram died, wounded the last day of March our infan eral Ransom in 18H6. But the I attempted to got in the rear precisely as I was, except that had made a narrow escape, and mond and Petersburg on the that if well cared for 1 would try consisting of only 7,000 men enemy had doubled upon us, and most vehicle, when the driver the ball did not puss through under General Pickett moved in night of April 2nd, the retreat recover. He then told General the route began in an effort to of Lee's skeleton of an army and objected and raised his whip to and out of the body. He -suffer the direction of Dinwiddie retreat by the right flank, where strike me. At that moment, ed much, and asked me if 1 had Grant that I must not be moved, Courthouse, where Sheridan his surrender at Appojnattox, that it might be fatal to send me there was the only possible Sunday, April 1). 1865. .some one, I know not who, cried anything to ease pain. I toltl with his 25,000 fresh and well chance to escape the storm of out, "Let him in; that is Colonel him I had morphine under my to a hospital with other wound equipped troops lay in camp. bullets pelting us in front and I will relate my experience af Hudson, Twenty-Sixth S. C. V., mattress. He begged me to ed. General Grant replied that Late in the afternoon a severe rear. ter being wounded. The wound wounded." Hi at once lowered bring him a dose. I informed he would see that I was not cavalry engagement occurred in I received was from a rninie ball his whip, and I crawled in tht* him that I could not Hsu up or moved. The surgeon then direct that vicinity with the advantage Lieutenant-Colonel Culp of at the distance of fifteen steps, ed me to do nothing for the the Seventeenth, and I, of the rear end of the ambulance. In turn over, whereupon he got on the side of the Confederate;*. thf ball passing through my left justice tu thi.s driver I will say down from his bed, came to me, wound but to keep a wet cloth Twenty-sixth S. C. V., had stood side below the lungs, and just at-ros* my left side so as to cover At night we encamped in the our ground until it was almost that I had on a dingy, thread took some of the morphine, re woods within two mile,-* of Din missing the entrails. It knocked bare fatigue suit, and the stacw turned to hi>' bed, and soon ask both orifices of the wound, and too late to escape, but we began me dowm In a moment two of left me. General Grant then widdie Courthouse, but it being to retreat by the right flank, and on the collar of my jacket were ed me to get some one to come discovered that we were within the ambulance corps, one of acaict-ly visible in their dark and adjust his pillow, as he was kindly asked if he could do any were uncovering the Five Fork* thorn being the Seventeenth S. thing Hj-=e for me, to which I re the Federal lines and practically when Gen. Matt Ransom dashed rusted state. The same must be in great pain. I tapped on the C. V., from Chester* S. C., ran plied that I knew of nothing surrounded by portions of their up on a fine bay horse, hat in said in explanation of the rude floor with my knife; Mrs. Pew- troops, no fires were allowed and hastily threw me on a words of General Hansom's or ram came in; I told her of the else, and thanked him for hi* hand, and called for volunteers Htretehei, and running, shoved and silence enjoined. Before derly. soldier's request. She went to kindness. He smoked H cigat to return and beat back the foe. me and stretcher into our ambu day we began a retrogade move arrange his pillow, gave a look while sitting in the room, but We had then retreated less than lance, standing without a driver I threw myself on iny back in ment towards Five Forks, pur of alarm, saying he was dying. not till he learned from me that i one hundred yards from our within twenty steps of Ihe the ambulance and begged the sued by the enemy. About noon 1 expressed my surprise, telling it would not annoy me. i original position. I responded enemy and in the line of the driver to mo\e on. He said he we reached our camp of the and gave the order to counter her that he had just left my I never saw a happier looking cross-fire. I remonstrated with would do so an soon as the one military family than were the night before at the Forks, and at march. I supposed the regiment bedside after taking a dose of them, but all in vain, and in a in front moved, telling me that other officers in the room, and once began to prepare dinner, had obeyed, but owing to the in it was Lieutenant-Colonel morphine, but she threw up her being very tired and hungry. twinkling they were. gone. AA they plied me with numerous confusion and panic not more Pegram, of the artillery, who hands, exclaiming, "My God! he Before we had finished the meal apprehended, the bullets were questions about the Confedeiate than the two companies of the was shot through the lower part is dead!" arid MO he was. Of we were hastily called to arms passing through the covering of army. General Gibbon sat by right followed me into the place of the left lung, and could not course 1 feared that my turn and thrown into line along the the ambulance, and in despera me, and learning that I was a of peril and confusion. Tha speak. I began to regret aban would come next, as thest- two main road of the Forks; Wise's tion I raised uj», slided tVom *he native of Chester, S. C., inform ambulance and ordnance wag doning the black horse, for I with wounds similar to mine had Brigade covering the Five Forks, ambulance in face of the buttle ed me that he was A native of ons had been driven from shelter knew we were pursued by the died. But night came, I slept, Wallace and Ransom on the left line of the enemy twern> »t: ^ Charlotte. N*. C., ami knew men and stood deserted by drivers enemy. However, in a few and awoke next morning again and Grade to the right. By the off, crawled under the vehicle of Chester, while I kruw men of near the line then being occupied minutes the ambulances moved rejoicing to find myself alive. time we had cut bushes and with and horses and toddled off Charlotte. We taikul much of by the enemy, who likewise fill off. This was about sunset, and bayonets and pans had thrown through the small pine.?, every Early on the :ird day of April, our mutual acquainl.*iiici'S, ar.d ed the pine thicket, the dead and one of which was being scraped it was seven miles to Ford's Sta Spear's cavalry, the advance up dirt knee high, the Federals wounded lay thick upon the several of the gay company run upon us in force. The fight with bullets, and how I escaped tion. I lay flat on my back in guard of Grant's army, arrived, wished me to drink of ihn fin*- ground, the bullets were flying bring riddled Providence alone great pain and fully believing and dispersed the la*t of Picket's ing was clone and severe. By and shells bursting in every di liquor in thttir full c.mtt-ens. 1 knows. Having hobbled off oiiy my wound to be mortal. I could stragglers. They scouivd the the middle of the afternoon rection. Into this pandemonium U.nynd f° ]' >'• but had tlif* will t<> hundred yards, I fell down in hear the noise and confusion of premises and sacked the house Sheridan's 25,000 men were up, we rushed and regained our posi dp'line \vjlh ri'gret, J' f uring It^ great pain exhausted. Passing tht route all along the road, and of all vestige of food. An a- and greatly overlapped us on the tion in the lines, but only to be left, when we were completely pellmell rushed the routed Con from the driver's talk could get sistant surgeon came in, examin come targets for the close cro.s-.- , some idea of the panic of the re- flanked. Warren's entire corps federates. 7,-hao Lieutenant Ken ed my wound and told me 1 fire of the Federals massed in nedy and twn nf M«> m^n. n? ' treat and the condition of the noon Hie nf cntoniti-. ]i -l b S. C. -ISAography - Hudson Family

effect upoti my wound. all I could hold between thumb by Colonel Smith. I had i.ot Chapter VIII man, an able and successful on each side for nearly two General Grant aski-u rri- but and forefinger. But for my seen Colonel Smith since Janu lawyer. I exhort all to come miles from the site of the old few questions, and among them suffering, this would probably ary, 1H*>5. he being at home on A Rambling Talk Before thu forward and aid the efforts of courthouse on the crown of thi> he asked if I though-: tjeneml have killed me, as a surgeon af leave of absence that month and, Citizens of Chester, S. C., Oc the noble women and men of hill. Lee read y t o su rren !e r. My terwards told me of my narrow being cut off by Sherman'x arnij, tober, 1900, on the occasion of Chester in this laudable enter The residence of Richard answer was, "General Grant, our escape, and urged me to take no had not been able to return to the Founding of the Palterson prise, projected by his liberal Woods, still standing, was there army is thinned to a skeleton more. Virginia, and hence had no part Iibrary. and public spirited widow, sixty-five years ago, but it i* in the closing acts of the war in Pride in your growing, flour and worn down. General Lee At the end of six weeks I was ladies and Gentlemen: not directly on the street or road. cannot resist much longer your able to walk a little, and was Virginia; but at home had gal ishing little city, in its past his From this statement you can lantly aided in .striving to check "Breathes there a .nan with tory, its inspiring traditions, and vastly superior force, bin when paroled by General Chamberlain, soul so dead form an idea of the then ap he surrenders or is captured, you of Maine, as he happened to Potter's raid to Sumter and in your noble ancestry, should pearance of that street. The old Camden. Imagine my surpi ise Who never to hjmself hath incit-- all to lend a helping hand will get only a fragimrU of this pass that way. With this parole said, George McCormick house disap skeleton. I know ihut a num- I took the train (box car) and and delight when Mrs, Holton and willing support. peared in my boyhood days, so told me that Colonel Smiih was This is my own, my native be? of his soldier^ will inuki1 managed to get as far south us land? My purpose, however, on this that the old jail now occupied their way South aw best they can Greensboro, X. C,, where, owing then in Charlotte and a /ut'st of occasion 13 not to discuss this by Mr. Chisholm is the only Whose in spite of your army arid! will to increasing pain, I went ir.to her house — he and a Mr. heart hath ne'er with subject nor to indulge in senti house now standing which v/as not surrender. Their f-ice.s are hospital. On the third dt.y, Tourney. In a half hour Colonel in him burned ment, but to give you an off- on the Lancaster road or street turned homeward ; t'jcy will learning by accident that 1 \\as Smith came, in and in great sur As home his footsteps he hath hand, rambling narrative of my , sixty-five years ago, all beyond stand by General Lee u> long us lodging within fifty yards uf prise and amazement found me turned recollections of Chester a« I '- being forest, except a corn there ia hope, but wnen despair three tents of .smallpox patients, tht-re, whom he had he;inl w.ts From wandering on a foreign knew the town and the people * field near the present depot, comes, they will UMJ to the my pain left me, and I fltd to killed at Five Forks. He and strand? sixty years ago. I have nuth- j which was built near the forest. woods, homeward bound, and the depot, where I took the fir.-t Mr. Tourney had made their »Vi;y If such there be, go mark liiin ing writte-n and will only, in nu On the street or public road will never surrender." train coming south towaids to Charlotte late in May in ;t well; t-rude narrative of matters and . leading from the courthouse on He .seemed thoughtful, ;.fd Charlotte, N. C., where, after rockaway drawn by two weait-t - i For him no minstrel's rap things, men and affairs, express the hill towards Yorkville there asked no more. He was, dining walking several miles over a beaten horses, for the purpu-t- uf tures swell. the memory of a child and lad. j stood next to the residence of the liour he remained with me, break in the road ten miles be buying prog on which to I 1 ail.-. High though his title, proud My statements may be inaccur- ! Mr. John Rosborough, now oc the most calm, quiet and mwdt"*t yond Charlotte, in company with How happy was I to be told that his name, ate, but will be just as I have i cupied by the surviving u-iUffh- man of his rank I t'Ver beheld. other returning soldiers, I ar in two days they would stari i'( i Boundless his wealth a« wish treasured them in memory, and j ters of Mr. James Graham, the rived about 10 o'clock of a fair Marl bo ro and could carry nn ! could claim, in the main will be correct. A 1 following residences, viz.; the As the Federal army parked At the appointed time wt- hid on, the corps of pjoniMis and May morning. My aim was to Despite these titles, power boy may not see passing events residence of Jefferson Clark get to my mother's home in adieu to kind Mrs. Holton and and pelf, in their true light, but retains a * where the present courthouse laborers c handed the guage cf family of sons urn! daughter.-, the South Side road to conform Chester, and wait for a chance The wretch, concenteied all recollection of them as they ap- J stands; next, a small house iri to reach Bennt-ttsville, wm-i'• and after an adventuous jounit-y, in self, peared to him. My memory ; which my mother lived after my to the City Point Railroad, and at rived on the third day in C he- so rapidly as almost to ki-ep a- thereafter the railroads would Living shall forfeit fair re dates back to the time when I ' father's death, where Patter- be repaired. raw. Here I met Chaiu-ellor nown, was two years old, and in vivid j son's law office is; next, a nouae breast of the army. A. i-jirh Inglis, Capt. Here a Confederate soldier Henry Mclver and And doubly dying, shall go of occurrences when I was a occupied by Angus Nicholson on depot a gari ison <>f A comt»«iny. others, who greeted me heaiiily or part thereof, was left -m and road companion. Praithti t.y down boy. As to scenes, as to men the north corner of the present name, from Laurens, S. C1 ., L'ff and earnestly inquired of me To the vile dust from whence and women, localities, residences ,( street leading to the Presbyter guard. By the small vrarrHo-i what would probably he duno thus Iff I at Ford's Station, ihe me on some loose cotton in :b(? he sprung, and occupants, in my boyhood I j ian Church, which street din not demolished railroad round with the slavt-s. etc. 1 told thorn Unwept, unhonored and un- remember much, I wish it wan j then exist; next a house owned family uf Mi. IVgram, co that house, and went in search of a absolute emancipation was »ung," an retentive of recent occur by Mrs. Terry and converted an accomplished of himself, wife, duugnt'-r. nnd meal. In due time he returned fact, and t'nat rences. into a schoolhouse, where Mrs. the whites t servant, were fed, as was I and with a promise from a good lady would be placed under When Sir Walter Scott pen Ann Foster kept a school — sub military rule at least for a sea I was born on January 29, A. any other wounded soldier who — an angel of mercy — to s,tnd ned these lines he felt the senti sequently the residence of Dr. son. After D. 1832, in the first jail built in happened to be brought in, find us a meal, and presently a Negro getting a free lunch ment from the bottom of his A, P. Wylie. Beyond this was a for ourselves and horses, Mr. the village of Chester, which they were brought in daily, out buy came bearing a waiter cover heart. He loved his native land, j large house Tuomey, to whom the vehicle stands now at the foot of the built by Dr. Uuno- as rapidly were hauled -iff to ed with a snnw-whitn napkin and her mountains, her hills and ;J vant, the father and team belonged, bade us hill as you leave the public- of Gill, Quay, hospital or prison, I alone being filled with such victuals as I had dales, her rivers and foies's, j John, Jefferson and William.-.. good-by and k-ft for Society Hill, square and proceed to the depot left undisturbed, although thf .not seen or tasted in four yeai/ her heroes and women, and jj of the Charlotte and Columbia It was converted into a female garrison was changed every v.-n k With sharp appetites and hearts he and Colonel Smith having clothed all with a halo of glory divided their goods. Railroad on the left hand suit;, academy, presided over first by or ten day*. The coming and of gratitude Praither and 1 ate in «tory and song. Should I u*- the same being now occupied by the Rev. Mr. Turner, and then going of the captured and as only th<- hungry can, and sent As good luck had it, an empiy tempt to give utterance to the Mr. Chisholm. by Mr. McWhorter. Afterwards wounded continued for at least the boy and empty waiter back wagon drawn by two hoi-yen and emotions of my heart tonight af The jail or prison half of this it became the home of Kit-hard two week*, and at times the floor to our benefactress with sincere belonging to the Rev, Mr. BeaL- ter so long an absence from my ' house was built of post ot* 1 : Kennedy and is now the pro- of my room was" covered with thank*. Praither here left me, tie. a neighbor of Colonel Smith's* native home, I could but say, logs hewed 10 by 12 inches, laid perty of Harvey Smith. It was soldiers and 1 have never seen him since, father, was about to start home, wounded variously, and **How dear to my heart arn the closely one an the other, nicely once owned by Judge T. J,. not n few like nor did I ever learn the nanu of and the driver took aboard unto myself, but I scenes of my childhood, •. notched, securely fastened, Mackey, Beyond this in the di- at la«=t was left alotu with ?Jr. our angel. Colonel Smith arid myself. After inside and weatherboard- ! rection of Yorkville there were Being When fond recollections pre^- „ Pejrram and family, :ir,d rrrviv- alone in this desolate a rough jolt of two hours we ed outside — the other or resi but two other houses, o.iie near spot my ent them to view." ed uniformly kind tnv.tmnjit at wit« began to work m.u arrived at Mr. Smith's, who then dence half being built as houses where Mr. Stringfellow lives, the hand of Federal officer and I remembered that my colonel, lived at the Terrel place and ran I love old Chester, where my 1 were usually buiit in that uay, , j'.nd the other the residence of a distillery during the war. soldiers. I think the kindest, A. D. Smith, once told me if I childhood and youth were spent. -' i. e., with heavy framing and of James Hemphill. Returning to There I was kindly received by most sympathetic and tender ever stopped in Charlotte to be It is wedded to my heart by th*? i the best lumber. My father was the old courthouse and starting Mr. and Mrs. Smith and fed. Mr. hearted human beinar that ?v-r .sure to call on Mrs. Holton, and .ndying ties of my early life, a tailor, and about 1828 be out on the Saluda road, there Robert I tamer, called "Little slept by my bed and administer I would find a friend to the ->ol- the recollection of which causes came the county jailor, occupy stood on the corner the first Bob," drove up alone in a buggy ed to my wants wan a freckled- dier. This brought me to my to well up in my heart feelings ing the jail as a residence. store of Thomas McLure; next to get some whiskey. He kindly faced private Federal soldier feet, and with my linl*- bundle and emotions that oveiwhelm Here on January 29, A. was the law office of Matthew gave me a D. who, In the first week of my suf of Confederate cloth received at .-eat in his buggy and me. Williams; next the residence of before 1832, I was born. The room in fering, nursed me a day and the hospital at Greensboro to .sunset landed me m Am7,1 Neely; still standing end Bennettsville, in the bosom oi* Fifty years ago fn the old which I was born has as yet night; and the sweetest food I make me a suit of clothes, and lately kept as a boarding-house my family, who were surprised brick academy that stood on the undergone no change, but to the ever swallowed was the beef tea clad in my blood-dtained army by Mrs. Melton, and rejoiced to greet the "dead McLure Hill, under the tutorship the widow of he made for me in his tin cup. A fatigue suit, I wended my wuy ; of our lamented Giles J. Patttr- "house there has been added a surgeon examined my wound a- to an old freight wan-triune still come to life," for all reports had double front piazza. Dr. Williams Melton; next waa left nie dead on the field at • son, I was prepared for the the residence of bout once in ten days, but no left standing. There I met a South Carolina Collie. Opposite this jail was a small Clement Wood*, Five Forks. now occupied by Mrs. Eugenia change of dreeing was prescrib solitary negro boy, and by him You are founding a city house occupied by George Mc ed. had pointed out to me the hoi^e So ended my army experience. library. In the interest of that Cormick, a house carpenter -— Babcock; the next house was the During the fifth week of my of Mrs. Holton. Bennettsville. S. C., 18!»8. his and my father's family be housi? of the widow Kendrick, prostration my greatest co/ture Going Mtraikhtway to H, I J. H. HUDSON'. benefaction this meeting i* held, ing on terms of close friendship. after which was the residence of came in the form of bed pains, knocked and the door was open and I do not know of a more These two buildings were the Dr. Starr, and last came the and through ignorance J nar ed by Mrs. Holt on. To her I Chester News, appropriate name to give it than only ones on that street which ia house of Obediah Farrow. On rowly escaped death from :r.or- Introduced myself, made known the "Patten+on Library.'* He the road to Lancaster. Now ia the north *ide of Saluda Street phine. I knew not what quantity my forlorn condition, and re- AUR. 1, 1962 was a useful citizen, a sincere i* clnsely built up with and beyond Farrow's wa* the cottage i»f tht- -hm-m«k"r '.'al! 1 - Id tuke, and in my i>»iui'- ro,.u •p>r>itf'l \vhiH h;id bt'i-n t

ban. Returnin^r to the ^uj'ic square stood the house of ol'i itiir ; i ai a |>j uilcnt distant-*- rivli]- ;i nd -urden 1-. Hodman, also a yooil jmui. I-'or M/. Jones taught here one ;, i-:ir square, and moving down the man Jimmy Adair and the store from his body. \Y>', Shelton, Bansemer, All of these are standing, nearly eighteen years old, and at and Rutland. It was a galaxy Patterson, which last teacher though a few have undergone whipping post was in use as an that time many changes had gle began. We had heard a of able men. but the small boy instrument of punishment. It prepared me for college; and change*. On -.vhat was trVn was more- impressed by Samuel the successors are known to called the old Pinc'viiey road w,»s takm place. N>w residences turtle would not let go until it stood a few steps in front of McAliley and T. N. Dawkins, the jail, and I. a little tot, on many of you. Matthew Williams' black.smitn had been erected on al. the thundered, and no clouds were visible. Bill nevertheless cried the latter being solicitor of the several occasions stood in the CHURCHES AXD MINISTERS shop, close to th" present jail, streets, and new settlers had circuit, and both being men of come in. It would be perhaps out, "Oh, God, will it never door and saw white men led OF THE GOSPEL and near it a snuill house in commanding presence, and a UP On the site of the present, which was for & while the vil of interest to make special men thunder?" I was much terri from the prison cell, stripped to advocates, and generally i-iited the waist, fastened to the post was built the first Baptist lage school. Fiuther on and at tion of these changes, but time fied, but very careful to ,t>ive against each other. and g-iven thirty and nine lashes church of Chesterville, and the the forks of the road was the will not permit, and that must the turtle a wide distance. be left to those of you who are Finally, by a long pull, a The great judges who came to on the bare back, well laid on first house of worship in the vil residence of Jordan Bennett, ihe preside at the Courts of Com lage. It was built about 18-'14, silversmith, the home of John old enough to supplement" from strong pull and a pull altogether, with the rawhide. your memories. the hold was broken at the ex mon Pleas were Gantt, O'N'eal, Of course it was a shocking prior to which time religious Bradley being nearly opposite1 . Butler, Frost, Wardlaw, Withers. senlces were held in the court Beyond these th<' fore?t bopnn. pense of Bill's nose, leaving a sight, but it had a most salutary My purpose is to describe to severe wound anrl a lasting scar. Of the chancellor* the boys house. THE PUBLIC SQUARE you the village as it was sixty effect in deterring men from The small boy in that day and knew very little, for their The first ministers in this Having named the few resi yeais ago. You can note the time had much in his life and courts attrarted only th-.- M,li committing crime. church, which I remember, were dences situate in the village a changes, I will remark thot up long the six streets which di experience to develop his phy>i- citors-in-equity. The first sheriff I remember Rev. Mr. Noland, Mr. Chaffin. to the time that I left Chester Mr. Jeter, Mr. Broadway, and verge from the .public square, I oal counigp, hardihood, power of The Clerk of the Court of was Mr. Cabeen, and after him I had a high opinion of if", and endurance and bodily strength, now and then J. C. Fuiman. will mention the residences and looked upon it as a great j.ka'e. Common Plea." and General John A. Bradley —both hand such as fishing, hunting, trap some men and excellent offi places of business bordering the It has jrrown with my growth Sessions was John Rusboi The Methodists, about 18-10, ping, hill climbing, tree-climb cers. The next, 1 think, was f square on the main hill. The and increased with my years, who held office under the o*tny built a church on Pinckney only residence now standing of ing, walking long distances, statute, which gave the life William Rosborough, and after ; and 1 rt-tain an undying love for can-yiiiK burdens, gathering wild street just beyond ths present those then in existence is that of the town and its people. term. He and Mr. Gilliaid, of him James Pagan, all of them j jail and near Jordan Bennctt'a grapes, plum*, strawberries, faithful and capable officers, as j John Rosborouyh, clerk of court, Columbia were the only sur residence. It was subsequent gunning in daytime, hunting: U.,s- were their successors, who are j now occupied by the two sur THE SUBURBS AND vivor.-* of that law. Mr. ly bought and owned by the. Se- oppossums and raccoons at of- well remembered by the present^ viving daughters of the mer COUNTRY ADJACENT borough was an excellent ceders (A. R. P.). night, swimming, boxing, wrest generation. (j chant, James Graham. Passing At the period of which I f icer, very conscientious anu The earliest preadv-rs I there ling anil fist-fighting, fighting th.i thence westward along the pub speak the country adjacent to upright, and for use in PHYSICIAN'S } heard were Rev. Durarit, Rev. each other, fighting hornet?-, wilh The^e were few, but excellent. ;j lic square was on the site of the the village of Chester was in courthouse kept a Bible McQuorquodale, and the local deed a paradise. The hill* and wasps and yellow jackets, and Dr. Moffitt comes firnt in my-.;! present post off ice the store of cover removed, so that the \* iL- preacher, Timothy Lipsey. Amzi Xeely, with whom was dales were covered with a beau killing snakes, in which the ness had to kiss not the c*;ver recollection, and died of con Middletnn McDonald, next was tiful growth of forest of o;ik, woods, fields and waters a- but literally (he naked wniri of sumption. After him came Dr.; After this the Presbyterians the law office of Samuel Me- hickory and blackjack, abound bounded. C.od. A. P. Wylie. Dr. Reedy, Ur. J. j erected a little brick church op- ! Aliley, next was a doctor »ncp, ing in game, and in summer Boldness, daring, courage ami B. Joinings, Dr. William Wy-1 posite John McAfee's, called . next the Robinson Hotel, next supplying to the people a jr'ei.t. self-reliance were engendered In thai day and time the lie and Or. Stringfellow, all! "The Lecture Room," in which the store of John McKee, next abundance of delicious grapes, and developed by the surround law was more lespected t-nd good physicians. the Rev. John Douglas preached, a store of Charles Alexander, whilst the sedge fields furnish ings. It began in infancy and feared «;nl mote rigidly adminis SCHOOLTEACHF^SS and the next regular pastor «a^ next the law office of Maj. Na ed great quantities of straw continued to manhood. tered than at the present day. Th*? first academy W'aa a two- the Rev. Mr. Auld, who board- thaniel Eaves, next a tailor &r.op berries of finest flavor. The Those Spartan mothers were To it the people looked for the story wooden building located fd with old Mr. John Rosbor at a later date occupied by my spring branches, creeks and the nurses of their babies and protection of society, and the O.M the McLure Hill, in rear of ough. uncle Rush Hudson, and lastly rivulets were well stocked with trainers of their children. They vindication of the rights of per the present residence of Miss I think it is now owned and oji the corner where stands the nice fish — catfish, eels, perth had no baby carriages, go-cails, sons and of property. To rely used by the Catholics. leading-—strings and negro Mary McKee. It was burned Cotton Hotel was the store of of every variety, and the .^tone- upon the mob to protect the SOME CITIZENS, nurses. The child learned self- down before I began to go to Mr. Coleman and Henry Ken roller or horn-head. The smF.il persons of women or of men MALE AND KKMALE, reliance from babyhood and school, and I have no recollec nedy, subsequently occupied by boy enjoyed fine sport in ang was not thought of, and a pro OF MARK AT Brawley & Alexander. Cross ling for them, and still greater waxed strong and healthy. position to resort to lynch law tion of those who taught there. THAT EARLY PERIOD ing Pinckney street the corner excitement in wading the Measles, mumps and whoopii.y would have startled the sterling After this Miss Ann Foster, a Of the merchants the tuailers store was occupied by Dr. I>uno- streams, driving the fish under cough were all expected m child men and noble women of that Northern lariy, opened a school were Thomas McLmv, Am?.' hood, and welcomed, no doctor vant and afterwards by Wil rocks and beneath the bank, and period. in the building owned by Mrs. Xeely, John McKee, Brawley & liam Lytle. Opposite to this, on slyly drawing them out by heing called in or needed to Terry, subsequently the resi Alexander, Dickson Henry an I treat them. So with chills ni,d the present site of the oj>«ra hand. Not infrequently instead How much better it would be dence of Dr. A. P. Wylie, and James Graham; of all the?e ; t fever and summer complaint. house, stood the large residence of a fish he would find his hand if at the present time people which stood on the site of *h« can truthfully be said that th- The little brats never stopped of George Kennedy, in afU-r drawing forth a water moccasin, vere as true to social duty mm present residence of Mr. Thomas were accomplished busuu -- eating- corn-pone and fat meat, days owned by Mr. Middleton which he WHH not slow to release. as loyal to the law as were our White. Here 1 began my school men, noted for strict intern•' and easily pulled through. How McDonald as a store and i esi- On one occasion on a Sabbatli ancestors. ing under Miss Foster. Thi« lady and purity of character. Among dence. Across the street or day, brothei- John, William true it H» that nature is her own Jurors then were as kind of boarded across the street at Mr. physician. these I should include J. M. Mc road leading to Columbia, just Woods, calK'd Bill for short, heart and as tender of feeling Amzi Neely's, where Mrs. Mel Donald — usually called Mid opposite the George Kennedy and I wandered out two miles to Fresh air, free exercise, piain as now, but regarded the rigid ton lately kept a board.n«- McDonald, who was asaociated House, was the residence of a branch called Grassy Run, and food and sweet sleep impai , to administration of law the only house. Miss Foster married Mr. with Amzi Neely; William Lytle, in a quiet spot indulged in (hi-; Maj. John Kennedy, from which, the human body great powers of safeguard of society, and never Kirvin Gilmore, a relative of a man of wit, humor and eccen sport of wading, driving and looking east were, in ihe order resistancce and endurance to suffered sympathy for the ac- Mr. Neely — brother-in-law, I tricity, and Leonard Harris, named, the residence and store catching fish from beneath the ward off disease, and if attacked cused to swerve them from duty. think, and *he and husband re banks and the rocks. Instead of chief clerk for Thomas McLure, of John McNinch, the store of by ailments, great recuperative A striking instance of this ad- moved to Columbia. Dickson Henry, the residence a fiwh my brother John drew energy. Nature furnished a herence to law occurred in my and barroom of Jo«hua Gore, the from the bank a large snapping remedy in the vegetable kiitjr- childhood. The cane is report- After this Mr. Wylie P. Jones residence of Mrs, Curry, and turtle, luckily holding him by dom for all the ills that human ed in 2 Hilil Law, Page 6l'.», The opened » school in the building last, the tailor shop of my fa the tail. It was the most vici flesh is heir to; and the plain State vs, John G. Ferguson. Mr. on Pinckney street, near the ther, just on the beginning of ous snapper I ever saw. We people in that day were skilled FergLison was an excellent citi- blacksmith shop owned by Mat the descent. started home with it, brother in the virtues of roots and herbs sten and peaceable man. In a thew Williams, which school- On the i-ast side of the carrvinLf it hv the tail ;in'l h<>i ,- which ;il>oiirnli'(| in the fores!-; hous(> afterwards became the carriage factory of Mr. C. rloHz. > S.C.-Biography — Hudson during all of which tune Attached to the boarding- ' suns who were good liou.'V '..mint A fee, Mrs. Sarah Clark, Mrs. .r ihji of men are stranjri-rs to a man of sterling character and whiskey was virtually fret li. its house of Maj. John Kennedy ers, and the descendants of Amzi Neely, Mrs. Hemphil! und he old-time, grand barbecue. noted public spirit. manufacture and sale, was a barroom presided over whom and of his daughters are Mis. Richard Kennedy. t is an institution of the past, Joshua Gore married a Miss by his brother-in-law, Thomas lost art. A full and accurate The hotel proprietors were to be found in Chester utid else At a later day others came in e :cription of it from start to Robert Robinson, proprietor of Lawson, a beautiful lady from Evans, who, with his maiden sis who were bright ornaments to ter, Mary, called Polly, were in where. ini^h would be worthy the pen the Chief Hotel, on the publi, the North. He was a humoious society, but to name all would f a Longstreet, or Richard Mal- square, and John McAfee ana man. If business became dull mates of the family of their bro- , Of shoemakers I can recall ho to enumerate the female he re-sorted to stratagem to in ther, Maj. John Kennedy, all bt.- olm Johnson, and a revelation his maiden sister Ellen, pro only Mr. Crawford and Mr. population of Chester. i to men of thi 5 day. Salesdaya, prietors of the Boarding-House, duce a run on his barroom. If ing staunch members and, in Adams — good workmen. A striking feature of the so- i fact, pillars of the Baptist rourt week, muster day and a little off the squai-e and c^ alone and lonely he would drop Of tailors I remember only my ciety of Chester, then and after, Fourth of July brought the peo the decline of the street lead behind the counter and with Church. father and my uncle Rush, Jef was the absence of social dis In his hull or entrance room ple of the district (county) to ing to the McLure Hill, and last sticks and much noise and loud ferson Clark and Angu.s Xicnol- tinction based on wealth. The gether in numbers, strength and ly the hotel or boarding-house swearing would,imitate a regular Major Kennedy had a fine ma son. My father was very peace poor, if well behaved, 'were ad kept in the George Kennedy Georgia scene knock-down fight. hogany sideboard, on which sat ably inclined, my uncle Ru*-h mitted to the best circles t»nd house, first in my recollection Hearing this great row, the citi his glasses and decanter. On Brave, stalwart men very quick-tempered and ready encouraged in the effort to bet in such crowds would naturally by Mr. Colvin, next by Mr. zens would rush to the scene of the arrival of the way-worn for a fight, in many of which he ter their financial circumstances Howerton, and then by Mr. Mid the supposed fight, ready to par preacher, he was warmly wel- become enthused, and more or became involved. If anybody and to elevate themselves. The I*M< belligerent, especially when McDonald. Of these, the most ticipate. corned, and invited up to rc- entered the shop expecting to in purse-proud were not there, nor famous caterer was Miss Ellen The discovery of the ruse pio- fresh himself with a glass of under the influence of liquor, timidate either of them, the door would such have received adula pure Hquor, for no other was McAfee, who waa, in fact, in duced merriment, good humor pure liquor, which was rarely was at once closed, a fight en tion at the hands of Chester peo and much treating and drink ever refused, regardless of de known. Thus enthused, they this line in advance of her day. sued, and before the outsiders ple. The teachings und the im for a trial of physical ing at the expense of the liberal nomination or creed, for the could interfere the door was press of our ancestors in this The house ot Maj. John Ken travel-worn preacher needed it th. Hence fist-fights wire nedy i'ould not correctly be ly inclined men of the deceived thrown open and the two i-mall respect arc plainly manifest a,- incomers. and liked it. But more faithfuj common — knives and pislub styled a hotel nor a regular tailors threw the " discomfited mojig their posterity to this day Vn i ing looked upon very proper servants of the church arc not bully into the street. in old Chester. I must here gi\e board ing-hou.-ie, but was the inn Gore accumulated money by now to be found than were the ly as cowardly weapons. in which itinerant preachers, and his thrift and close attention to my boyhood recollection and im members of the household of My father died at an early The small boy was always a- especially Baptist ministers, and business — was a good-hearted Major Kennedy and the pivach- pression of two women, Mi.-s chosen friends and relatives man — much liked by the peo age, leaving a widow and seven Kllcn Me A fee and Mr*. Gallic rounil and about to see the fun, ers he entertained. They \vert small children surviving him. Clark. They were excellent and if on a public- day ht- did no'. were hospitally lodged free of ple. He afterwards movt-tl to the brave pioneers in building charge. The main hutel at which YorkvilU', where he opened a About ten years thereafter my ladies and good friends to my see a half dozen fights he wtnt churches and spreading the .uos- uncle Rush moved to Arkansas. home disappointed. the judges, lawyers and travel hotel and barroom, and died pel — Baptists, Methodist •, mother, and I loved and feurud ers were lodged, and local and leaving quite a nice property, Jefferson Clark, the other them. Both were independent, On the eastern or Rocky- Presbyterians and all whom he tailor, married Sarah, a daugh visiting citizens boarded and and two daughters, as beautiful so hospitauly entertained. free-spoken women, and h*d au Creek side of town lived the Mc- took their meals, was kept by and accomplished as could any- ter of Judge Rosborouyh', the unaccountable facility in find Ninches, Robertsons, Whams and Robert, or as he was generally : where be found. Catherine be- Major Kennedy was indeed a clerk of court. ing out about the actings and other Irish and Scotch-Irish citi called, Bob Robinson, about the came the wife. first of Mi. man of public spirit, a fiiend tu doings of small boys, und never zens — usually square-built, the poor, and charitable almu>r. He was a noted man — being site of the present Chester Ho Woods, on whose death <-|IH mar not only a good tailor, but a hesitated to give them "a piece stalwart men of medium stature. tel, near the DaVega drug ried Mr. Withers, and alter his to a fault. He was a benefac of their minds," praising whi'ii tor of my mother and family. I noted ventriloquist, which facul store. After Robert Robinson death she married the Rev. Dr. ty was to himself and friends a prai-it.- was deserved, and rebuk 1 Men of nerve, muscle arid prid -1 Darby, of the Methodist Church. could relate many amusi.nir in ing when conduce was bad. i of nationality, ready at all timt; * retired to his home and farm, cidents in his life falling under .source of much amusement, but east of Chester, it was kept by She and husband still live. Mary to the small boys and negro a If I ever did a bad thing on ( to espouse a quarrel or rt-seni Helen married the late Judge my own observation, and others ! an insult. On the western u • my uncle Rush Hudson for t resting in tradition, but time source of wonder and terror. the streets or at school, they while. Samuel W. Melton, who died & The negro blacksmith often would learn of it quicker than i Sandy River side of the town distinguished lawyer ami advo will not allow. He lived to a j liv?d, among othf*r.« of the Eng- graat old a«e, and died during dropped the foot of the horsy he my mother, and it seemed to be CH_E8TBRNK W 3 cate, after having filled many was shoeing and fled the my bad luck to be sent on an er i Hsh and Vnvalier stock, a fjmi- offices of honor and trust in the or just after the Confederate * ily of Hardins — very tal\ war at an age nearing a hundred premises upon hearing the hor^e rand to one or the other shortly August 8, 1%2 State. (His amiable and beauti curse him, and others again de after I hud misbehaved, and '! square - shouldered, muscula- ful widow ha.-i >inrt> followed years, honored and beioved ly ^ men and fearless. Between th -1 all the people. He was indeed stroyed the dozen egg.s one by then I was sure to "catch it." him to the grave, survived by one which they were offering They were truly terrors to the two people there seemed to ex their sons and daughters.) the patriarch of the town, luiv- ing been u leader among her for sale- on hearing chickens rude,, bad boy, but a great com- ist a rivalry, prejudice and ani "Skefches and The most imtrd non-profes people from its foundation to chirping in them. fort to him if his conduct wn» mosity. The consequence was sional citizen of Chester was praiseworthy. Blessed be their that a publli*' day in Choster the day of his death, a penou of A ngus Micholson was a good Maj. John Kennedy, As I have three-quarters of a eenluiy. A memory. 1 wish their like exist rarely passed without a collision waid, he kept open house for all man, of small stature, had no between these people or their sketch of his life and the iivts of training at school, but was ed m •vei-y towa, Reminiscences" itinerant ministers of the gospel, his children would include a his neighbors and friends. especially Baptist preachers, and sinjrularly familiar with the geo If I recollert aright. William tory of the village and the tow:i graphy of our country, being and people. He was among the was more addicted to drink thnn DRAM .SHOPS received, lodged and entertain able to namu correctly the capi hi-1 brother Smith Hardin. ed most hospitably many friends best men I ever knew and a man tal of every .State of the L'nion, Of these I remember but IAV-» On one occasion the Irish of —the one Kept by the o:-ivntri.. frnm far and near. He was of of mark. thi- principal rivers, towns, etc. Iri^h extraction and perhaps a As contemporaries of Mujor Rocky Creek set upon William, humorous and loud-swearing but he backed up in the corner Joshua Gore, ami the other by native of old Ireland. He WHS Kennedy and prominent men in THE WOMEN OF CHESTER noted for his courage, energy, molding the sentiment and behind thf railing of the piazza the quiet John McAt't-c; but, it Of these I cannot speak save of Maj. John Kennedy's bar raiiKt be noted that the n-er- uprightness and generous hos character of the people of Chea in terms of admiration, for their cHants with few exceptions kept pitality. He married a Miss ter and in the upbuilding of the room, and by the advantage »f superior* in all the virtues that " his long arm sent each assailant their celluts and rear grocery Kvans, a beautiful woman of village, I must mention Thomas adorn the sex I have never Reminiscences back reeling,reelin with a black eye rooms well supplied with liquor many virtues. McLure, John McKec, Dickson known. All were friends of and for the accommodation of their Their sons were John, Henry Henry, James Graham, Hiram or bruUfcd jaw, until all were dis kind to my mother and family. I A public day was a notable comfited. customers who wished to huy by and Richard, and daughters, Brawley, father of Judge W. H. must b» pardoned, however, if < ccasion. The people were fond the three gallons Chester. ary taste — a Mr. Klliott. He cended in great hastf and all strong enough to undertake this When winter came, a negro Should a similar dry spell now The great mii*^ of people had married Miss Kimball, formed a scampered off. arrest. Finally he placed the man, Hannibal Brawley, was out occur it would not produce one- never seen a moving1 railroad partnership with Fowler Ken CALITHUMPFAXS warrant in the hands of William "possum hunting.*' His dojj tenth of the suffering then ex engine and train of cars. nedy in the business of manufac In A spirit of fun *.nd \viih McNinch, who bore the sobriquet- treed, and he went to him to se perienced by the people, because Great preparations made turing- tinware, and located per food intentions, some of the of "Dod dang it." cure the oppossum, little dream i[iiici\ railroad transportation for the reception of this first manently in Chester. ing that his wandering- in the would relieve the wants of the citizens m-g-anizcd a secret club McXinch selected his brother- train. In the woods near Ihe He soon became active in or woods had brought him to the people. which they called Culithutnpifins, depot a grand barbecue ivas ganizing among the gentlemen in-law, John Charles, to aid him. haunted >p«t. Looking- up the T<> supply long forage for the object of whL-h Was to the whistle of the engine an comedies ami tragedies which Whilst "palavering'* \\ith Tay- marks of the briars through A full history of this drought, nounced the approach of the mystery, foi citizens caught OUT lor, McNinch seized him from and th t. efforts and expedients would be eredilnblo to any simi late at night were frijfhtt-nc'l which he ran, train, and it .-non came in si^ht, lar club of the present day. behind, and gave the concerted Varmints in that vh inity en of the brave people to relieve all and pretty roughly hanrtk-u l.y bearing banners anil pv^rgreens FIRKWORKS signal. John Churles rushed in joyed a long period of immunity, classes, but especially the poor these shouts. and a ntinibei of people from Co- Such a thintf as a display of just in time to save .\Ic.\inch The next event to he mention ami needy, would lie interesting As always happens, however, lumbia and Winnsboru, The en fireworks had never been seen fiom a severe beating. The two ed was the great drought of and inspiring, but this 1 have with such societies, the fii to band, and serious trespa...-«'s comparatively little. Yet how our serted house near the lanyard Many instance-* of rousrh /isi- to the first week in July no the depot. The president of the branch, and that Mr. Elliott was upon the property of g'ood men rain fell in Chester district, and people do find fault with rail fights in Chester at that day engaged in this work. What it were committed. road companies. railroad company, the Hon. Ed might be mentioned, hut time in the State generally. was, however, they could not On one night this band tori' THK .MEXICAN* WAR ward rood man, the Rev. the Citizens of Chester in re but the work went on and Mr. lowed by reconciliation and the people was extreme. Man plause. All then repaired to the Elliott was seen often to enter John Douglas, because he I.;H: drinks for the combatants and and beast suffered intensely sponding to the call for volun grov*1 and tVastPd upon such a and depart. The boys were per been heard to condemn the du- friends — no sticks, no knives, fur necessary fond and water. teers for the Mexican War. inps of the band. This was in 1S4(», following barbecue fts only the people of plexed and baffled. no pistols were allowed. The only supply of corn came After a while Klliott and the great drought of 184i>. < 'Hester knew how to prepare. On the occasion of the closimr SOME NOTED EVENTS IN from across the mountains of Kennedy be^an to erect in an exercises of the large feniiil People forgot all about the The table WHS erected on the CHESTER nruix<; MY . North Carolina and Tennessee, three sides of a square, and in open lot in the rear of the school taught by the Rev, Hi. HOYHOOI> AND YOl'TH drouirnt and it> sufferings, «iul transported in wagon* sent by measurement was nf great Presbyterian lecture room a Turner, the band assembled and Virst among these J will men burned with fire of patriotic en- f at m* rs to obtain and bring it. length. Such an assemblage of lattfe circular plank inclosure tore down the entire larye in tion the arrest, trial, conviction thu>iasm ami local pride in Uif; -Meal, nit ion ed out in small ten or twelve feet hitrh. This closure around the academy, .iii'l execution of three slaves, pr«i?««*-worthy effrtrt to orira- people at a feast had never been quantities from waif o as on the seen in Chester, and probably greatly increased the wonder of and entering, made nijcht the property of Alien DeGraf- niHv the firsl company. She streets of Chester, sold for two never in the State. Thousands- the boys. t'enreid. certainly near!'' achieved that dftllars a bushel, and at thin Finally it was announced that He was a wealthy planter re price to a single family u ould honor. inspected the engine and cars on a certain ninbt there would with all fciiiri:- of noisy instru siding in the western part of The district was t.Maze with with great curiosity and admira be in said inclosure a Krand dis ments am! yelling, to the (Treat (Hester district, living alone, bf sold not more than tt half bushel, an (I only a peck unless enthusiasm — publii- meetings tion, but none seemed more a- play of fireworks. alarm of the girls and all the being a widower, and his chil the family was large, These were held in the courthouse mazed than Obadiah Farrow. Before dark the boys began audience. dren having married and set wei M home wagons. sent by be week after week, day after day. to jzathor around the hiq;h wall, The-'e excesses aroused all the tled apart- from him. He prided himself upon hi* skill nevolent people to bring bread attended by the beauty -ind as a blacksmith, and believed especially those of us who had good people of Chester, and ; v."l A noted slave of bis, called chivalry of the land. Patriotic not money to £et admittance to the f!i*p?r»iofl of the ba:nl of "Yellow John," WHS a ''run to keep the masses of the people that no man could excell him as .from starving-. songs were composed and sung a worker in iron and brass. •within. outlaws, yot so well did they away." Mi. De* Jraffem eid was "by the sons and daughters of After a close inspection of the At dusk, while we sat near preserve secrecy that no one was known to keep money in his All spiiug branches and small Chester, and in a short time was the entrance with our hacks a- detected and prosecuted, but all home, with all the arrangements crevks were diied up, the spring1 engine he proclaimed it the raised and onjani/.v-d «-. fine a grainst the wall, speculating as to damage to property was re ul' which John was familiar. branch running around Chester greatest wonder of the world, company of volunteers us was in what the show would be, Mr. El having' been, for six weeks prior and now that he had seen it, paired, but from whom came the Taking into his confidence the famous Palmetto regiment, liott, in a spirit of fun and mis to July -4 tli, so dry that where it announced his readiness to die. money W^K never known. two ot'ier slaves on the place, the captain. K. (i. 1 >umivarit, chief, »ent up a sky-rocket. he stealthily approached at night, crosses the road leading to The young men of Chester returning at tlie close of the war What wonderful changes and Such running an we did in get and, nmrderiny his master, rob Winnsboro it could not IUIVR were fine specimens of man as the major of the regiment, improvements have since then ting away had never been done bed the house and fled. The been seen that such had ever hood, possessed of many traits, decimated in bloody battles. been effected in railroad and by us before in any emergency, three were in due time captured, existed. In spite of the drought, hut *t'0- heard one man say to another the pyrotechnics began. charge of by tlie n-sidenf phvsi- terrible war between the States, There is now scarcely a vil piy upon rising in the morning, that it would soon rain. The in In that trying- time Chester was i ians and carried a mile or more lage or hamlet in the State t;iul louktng to (he main hill, T> fti quiry came, "Why do you say outstripped by none of the com west of the village'to a .spring which is not reached by a rail A hundred yards of move find every approach to the pub so?" The answer was, "be munities of the State in mar (•ranch rising in a ravine in the road or electric line, nor a vil from the ini-losmv was u very lic sijuare blockaded with feru-e-t cause the spring branch which shaling her sons for war — a war oodw. For days the work of lage nor hamlet in the State in large* wide-spreading elm tree. made of dry (roods boxes, barrels haw been so long* dry, is now ; ^section progressed, and th« which the-^e great distributors of The boya outside discovered thi- and all sorts of material Lii.il moving across the Winnsboro place was religiously avoided by .«uch a-s was not surpassed by the produce of the land are not tree to be full of nen1 rue*, who contrivances, and every -iign and Columbia road." Immediate ihe negro, the small boy and nations of the earth during the complained of by the people. could overlook the wall and see over places of business removed ly I and other small boys run in

Kdmund Jrnnings, -who elffki I for John McKee; also John, tie: son of John McKee. Robert and John Jemiings removed to Mississippi, where John died, but Robert still lives in Vazoo. Neither of thesf married. Edmund settled in Shelby, N. C. Leonard Harris was chief i-lt-rk for Thonius Me Lure untii his death, after whit-h he c-Ieiked for Brawley & Alexander, and lastly became a hank cashier till his death. William Robinson c-. was also a clerk for Brawley £ Alexander. Millikin Graham Cl cleiked for John Me A fee and others. •4- Among tht- men who settled in en Chester before 1 went to college i can name James Parish, Wil liam Timmy, the Albrights, Georgo La timer ami his cousin, George Latimer; Jerry Black- man and Elijah Rlackman, Mr. Killian, Mr. Holbrook, Mr.

Curti^, Mr. Holt?-, Samuel McNinch and George Culp, all excellent mechanics. Robprt West and Daniel Carroll, tailors; Jackson West, a harness and saddle maker; Mr. James Robinson, a shoemaker; Miles Simril, a tail or; John Simril, whose speeml calling I forget; Mr. Letson, a hotel keeper; John S. Wilson, a lawyer, and in later life and for years probate judge; the widow Wilkes, with two aons and four daughters; the Rev. Mr. Hinton, who married Catherine, daugh ter of Maj. John Kennedy, and a brother of Mr. Hinton, who married Eliza Jane, another daughter. Other settlers came in prior to I84i», but I cannot now re member their names. Nearly all ffi of those named have died, but many of their descendants live and bear honorable names and live honeat and useful lives.